Shōki Fukae

Okite (2003)

Yakuza film directed by Hiroki Matsukata. ...

Heisei Zankeiden: Blood Blade Dos Barks! (1998)

A lone wolf yakuza vs detective. It was supposed to be an undercover investigation into the Yakuza organization… A drama of friendship and betrayal between men living in different worlds. ...

Lone Wolf & Child: Assassin on the Road to Hell (1989)

The tale of Ogami Itto and his son Daigoro has come full circle with the greatest sword actor of all time, Wakayama Tomisaburo now playing Lone Wolf's mortal enemy, the evil Lord Yagyu Retsudo, who masterminded Ogami's fall from grace. Brilliant sword acto ...

Samon’s Hell Revenge: Unauthorised Jutte Records 4 (1984)

Samon, who had left his position as a police constable, embarks on a journey. During his travel, he is attacked by a group of masked bandits and sufferes a deep wound on his way back to Edo at the request of Magistrate Toyama. Saved by Dr. Kazumichi, Samon ...

Assassination Orders (1984)

The ronin, Sako Kanbei has to rescue the beautiful Princess Tsubaki from danger while young samurai of the Numata Clan stand up against their corrupt Chief Retainer and evil clan mistress. Kanbei wants to develop his swordsmanship only for himself, he find ...

She Cat (1983)

Dr. Cat Kagami was hoping to leave her torrid past behind, but a failed assassination attempt has now put her square in the crosshairs of a team of brutal killers. Now no one is safe, including her lesbian co-worker and a mysterious woman with a terrible s ...

The Duel in the Forbidden Territory (1983)

The wandering swordsman, Ino Heihachiro, defeats Ichima, the youngest of the famed swordsmanship trio, the Nikis, but sustains an injury. In the mountains of Tohoku, he is aided by a young boy named Shosuke. Heihachiro finds refuge in the home of the boy's ...

Eighteen Years, to the Sea (1979)

Kei and Atsuo were both enrolled in summer school. Kei was an honor student, and Atsuo was the polar opposite - but opposites attract. After school, the two head to the beach, where they find another student from their school competing against a local gang ...

Nihon Meisaku Kaidan Gekijō: Kaidan Botan Dōrō (1979)

Otsuyu, the daughter of a samurai, takes her life after being forced into an unwanted marriage, and her maid Omi follows her in death. Together as spirits, they visit Otsuyu's lover, Shinzaemon. Believing Otsuyu is alive, Shinzaemon rekindles their relatio ...

The Okinawa War of Ten Years (1978)

After World War II, when Okinawa was under control of the United States, the local yakuza prospered. But when Okinawa is returned to Japan, the mainland yakuza tries to take over; the local yakuza tries to compete. Now sides are drawn among the local yakuz ...

A Young Female Instructor (1978)

A junior high school teacher is raped by several students inside the school. ...

The Smart Aleck Ten (1977)

Based on the comic by Toshiya Masaoka. ...

Which Is Stronger, Karate or the Tiger? (1976)

Yasuaki Kurata plays a masked ring brawler who is out for revenge against an evil, megalomaniac entrepreneur played by Japan's most reliable bad guy of the '70's, Masashi Ishibashi. ...

Violent Fraternity (1974)

Set in Shibuya in 1949, this is another film based on real life former yakuza boss Noboru Ando's memoirs. ...

Reformatory Buddies (1974)

Third film in the series. ...

The Ando Gang Documentary Film (1973)

This biopic of notorious yakuza-turned-actor Noboru Ando focuses on the days leading to his arrest after the shooting of businessman Hideki Yokoi. ...

Bodyguard Kiba 2 (1973)

Kiba is back again, but this time he has fallen from grace and sent to prison for all the violent acts he has committed. Once he's out, he begins working as a bodyguard in a club that is crawling with gangsters. ...

Wild Cop (1973)

Based on the comic Gokiburi Deka. ...

Quarreling with Yakuza (1973)

Set loose in a postwar world with no rules, an ex-juvenile delinquent begins building the most powerful gang in Tokyo's glittering Shibuya ward. ...

Rebellion Reward (1973)

The film tells about drug trafficking from Vietnam to Tokyo and Okinawa. Tetsuya Watari plays a photographer who uses his camera as a blackmail weapon. He is on the trail of a narcotics smuggler (Mikio Narita) and his beautiful contact (Haruko Wanibuchi). ...

Bohachi Bushido: Code of the Forgotten Eight (1973)

A Ronin with a death wish reluctantly joins the Clan of the Forgotten Eight, a nasty crew of ronin who are wrapped up in a clan war over local prostitution. ...

Yakuza Wolf 2: Extend My Condolences (1972)

Attacking Asao Uchida's lonely, clifftop mansion in no-holds barred massacre. ...

Shadow Hunters 2: Echo of Destiny (1972)

The great Daimyo enlists the aid of the three Shadow Hunters in ensuring the delivery of an illegal cannon in this sequel to Toshio Masuda's bloody adaptation of the manga by Takao Saito. Despite the Shadow Hunters's remarkable skill, this mission is no wa ...

Yakuza Skirmishes (1972)

In the gaudy world of 1930s Shinjuku, a violent youth known as Bakudan Match tangles explosively with prostitutes, politicians and the police. ...

Shadow Hunters (1972)

Set during the declining years of the Tokugawa shogunate, Shadow Hunters details the questionably noble exploits of three ronin who act as "Shadow Hunters". These three ronin are not your normal ornery ruffians who are looking for a drink, a broad and some ...

Delinquent Boss: Alley Dog Commando (1972)

This is the Fifteenth film in the series. ...

Sword and Flower (1972)

Masuda Toshio film starring Watari Tetsuya and Mori Masayuki, about a lone-wolf type (Watari) seeking love and defending the honor of an elderly widower (Mori). ...

Chase That Man (1972)

The story of the desperate struggle between the police and a large crime syndicate. ...

Zatoichi at Large (1972)

Blind masseur and master swordsman Zatoichi finds a robbed and fatally wounded pregnant woman, whose baby he delivers before she dies. He takes the baby in search of its father and finds the child's aunt, who is about to be forced into prostitution for wan ...

Law of the Outlaw (1971)

Takei Goro leaves the gang to quit the yakuza world, but the gang won't allow it and relentlessly pursues Takei. This is Watari Tetsuya's first film to star in Shochiku. ...

Bad Girl Mako (1971)

Patronized by a gang ruling the city, Mako delinquently plays around a night club every night with her bad company. One night, a guy Hideo gets closer to her for one-night stand, and they consequently fall in love. However, Hideo is killed by the gang. Mak ...

Monk's Paradise (1971)

A genius gambler and born hunter is a Buddhist monk by occupation. A raunchy comedy about a lecherous monk who, despite serving the solemn Buddha, keeps breaking the precepts one after another. ...

Blood for Blood (1971)

The Akiba and Shimura crime families run the streets of "K City". With the construction of new buildings and new factories underway, the city has sprouted into a boomtown and business is good. Two of the most infamous mobs of Tokyo want a piece of the pie. ...

Chivalrous Man: Junkyard of Life (1971)

End of the Taisho period. In the city of Kiryu, where the wind is constantly blowing, the heads of the yakuza families of Kanhasshu (eight Kanto provinces) were to raise funds for the construction of the Chuji Kunisada monument. Responsible for the fundrai ...

The Killer (1971)

A former gang leader and lone wolf who has left the organization works behind the scenes in a new city to take revenge on a giant alliance of organizations. This film is amongst the last "straight" yakuza films made at Nikkatsu before the studio's switch- ...

Secret Zone of Tokyo (1971)

The third installment of the "Night front line" series. An erotic entertainment action in which two young men come to Tokyo and meet face-to-face with a nocturnal organization that controls women with sex and violence. ...

Haunted Samurai (1970)

When his sister commits suicide as a result of his actions, Rokuheita, an enforcer for the Yagyu ninja clan, considers his choices and eventually deserts the organization. Hunted by an army of bizarre shadow warriors, the target turns on his pursuers when ...

Step on the Gas! (1970)

Yūji, fresh out of prison on parole, meets a stranger named Nao that asks for his assistance... ...

Sign of the Jack (1970)

Hanamura, widely known in gangland a professional trouble shooter has the sign of the Jack tattooed on his chest. His follower is his sworn partner Kurahara. They attempt to help the Towada-Gumi gang against its rival group the Kamioka-Gumi which is seekin ...

Men's Lifetime Dream-A Peep into A Women's Bathhouse (1970)

You can get into university anytime! But you can't get into the women's bath!!! Three cram school students yearn to see and enter the women's bath, and together they harbor an agonizing bittersweet desire to see it, making this a hilarious comedy that blow ...

Melody of Rebellion (1970)

The disbandment of the Tanno clan left gang member Tetsu to stray from the crime family's fold. He roamed the streets as a one man band, wearing a denim jacket and long hair with sunglasses to cover his piercing eyes. Befriending a like-minded lone wolf by ...

Greatest Boss of Japan (1970)

A man who became the third boss faces off against delinquent foreigners and villains vying to rule the underworld in order to develop the port city. ...

Gambling Den Desire (1970)

In a small town on the Kasumigaura coast in the early Showa period, the Masukawa clan from Tokyo is trying to take away the interests of the local Isetoku family. Setsuko, the adopted daughter of the Isetoku family, falls in love with Seijiro, a travelling ...

The Cleanup (1969)

A real all-star cast turns out for this modern yakuza yarn. ...

Red Sword Sheath: Code Of Honour: Recieving Orders (1969)

Japanese crime film ...

Vermillion Sword: Scabbard Code Sword Amidst the Swirling Cherry Blossoms (1969)

Beginning of the Showa era, Takasaki City in Joshu (Gunma Province). Gambler Inufushi Yoichi continues to lose at Takamasa's gambling house. The authoritative female gambler Ai gives him money and advises him to think seriously about his life. She has to l ...

Lone Rebel (1969)

Nomi-gumi, who plans to control Tama City, has begun to hurt Takase-gumi. Muraki, an executive, was entrusted with the destruction, but he was a brother of Takase-gumi's substitute, Tsukada. Muraki, who missed Tsukada and the old days at Tsukada's wife Shi ...

Tale of the Last Japanese Yakuza (1969)

Yakuza drama with Meiko Kaji directed by Masahiro Makino ...

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 ...

100 Gamblers (1969)

Set in Kyushu during the early Showa period, the son of a boss who is killed after a greedy boss takes over his territory, takes over and takes revenge on his nemesis. ...

Yabanjin no Nekutai (1969)

Motozo Imamura, a.k.a. Gen, grew up in an upper-class family, but he never went to school and spent his days playing around. One day, he walked into an orgy of male-female sexual misconduct, and when he dropped off Roze, whom he had met there, he saw her s ...

Rising Dragon: Red-Hot Iron Skin (1969)

Japanese crime film ...

Family Crest: Die Like a Man (1969)

The story of three brothers who, after loosing their parents in the Great Kanto Earthquake, continued their respective yakuza family business and the revenge of the youngest one when his siblings were killed by a rival vicious yakuza boss. The first in th ...

Exiled to Hell (1969)

It is the end of the Taisho era (1912-1926), and at the Hanazuki-tei theatre in Asakusa, the famous performance of storyteller Koiso Kikuji and performer Kataoka Koshin is reaching its climax when the Tawaraya family interferes... This is an entertaining a ...

Women of the Night - Butterfly Flower (1969)

A flower is a woman or a man is a butterfly... Love and melancholy bloom wildly in the nighttime garden! This is a moody entertainment work depicting the love, laughter, melancholy, and human drama of an iron-fisted daughter of a family of expositors who, ...

Outlaw: Black Dagger (1968)

A street war breaks loose between two rival gangs in the Kansai region of Japan. Goro is in the middle of action. Through a knife fight against Sueo, a high profile gangster from Busou-kai, Goro notices a familiar face approaching him from amidst the chaos ...

Outlaw: Goro the Assassin (1968)

On a cold winter day, Goro Fujikawa (Tetsuya Watari) and Masahiko murder the mob boss of Meishin-Kai. The deed costs them time in prison, but Goro had no shred of regret. When Goro is released 2 years later, Masahiko is dying in prison hospital and entrust ...

Lost Virgin (1968)

Story of a nineteen-year-old office girl who loses her virginity. ...

Three Rogues (1968)

Two lone wolf yakuza (Hideki Takahashi and Kunie Tanaka) rob a gambling den, then split up when pursued by the angry gang. They eventually meet again at Tanaka's mother's rural farmhouse. By then, one-eyed Kobayashi has wrangled his way into the scenario, ...

Retaliation (1968)

Emerging from a stint in prison, yakuza lieutenant Sumukawa discovers that his gang has disintegrated. An ambitious type, he quickly hooks up with another gang who promise him a prominent position if he helps them deal with a rival family. But bonds are ma ...

Outlaw: Gangster VIP 2 (1968)

Goro (Tetsuya Watari) wants to put his dark past behind. He heads to Hirosaki City to offer his condolences to Yumeko and to reunite with Yukiko (Chieko Matsubara), but finds that Yumeko is fatally ill. Although Yukiko was taking care of her, she is presse ...

Outlaw: Gangster VIP (1968)

Goro had grown up in the yakuza world. As an active member of the Mizuhara family crime syndicate, he expressed his loyalty by always putting himself in the forefront of every battle. Violence never bothered him. However, after being sentenced to three yea ...

Return to Kanto Prison (1967)

Masakichi Murase has just been released from prison and appears in a fishing port town. Two Yakuza families have been feuding in this city for a long time. On the side of the Okai clan, Masakichi enters into a confrontation with the evil Kawade family, who ...

The Aftermath of War (1967)

After World War II life in Japan was hard. There was lawlessness, rapine, never enough food or money. One girl, raped by three men, called out the name of Kentaro before she died and this was something that people in this small section of downtown Tokyo re ...

My Sweetheart (1967)

It had been a year and four months since Mitsuo was last on a movie set. Welcomed back by director Ishizaki and his film crew, Mitsuo is excited to star as the lead in "My Sweetheart". One day, half way through production, he meets his friends from a popul ...

The Return of the Filthy Seven (1967)

A 1967 crime film ...

Velvet Hustler (1967)

A young yakuza hitman named Goro does a job and needs to hideout away from Tokyo for a while. He hangs out with loose women and hard men and always manages to stay one step ahead of the law. In his exile, he comes under suspicion for a murder and meets the ...

Massacre Gun (1967)

Kuroda is a mob hitman who turns on his employers after being forced to execute his lover. Joining forces with his similarly wronged brothers, hot-headed Eiji and aspiring boxer Saburo, the trio escalate their mob retaliation to all-out turf war where no o ...

The Kanto Region Is Also Expanding (1967)

A man who was released from prison wanders around the Kanto region and gets involved with the local yakuza. ...

Burning Nature (1967)

Film from 1967. ...

Burning Clouds (1967)

Saga from Chichibu Mountains - Sword Cuts the Shadows (1967)

During the 1880's a young swordsman, Saotome Gengo, on his way to Tokyo stops at an inn in a small town. But he does not know that his prowess has already attracted envious attention and that Senzo, the boss of the local gang, plans to have him killed. Sei ...

A Warm Misty Night (1967)

When Toru Sagara (Yujiro Ishihara) returns home from a foreign cargo route, he proposes to his beloved girlfriend Akiko (Ruriko Asaoka). She joyously agrees, promising a life together. On the day they were to be joined in matrimony, Akiko suddenly goes mis ...

A Colt Is My Passport (1967)

A gang lord hires Kamimura, a hit man, to take out a rival boss who's gotten greedy. ...

Immortal Guy (1967)

Kosuke Suzuki was presumed dead after boss Toseikai Setouchi lynched him and threw him into the sea off the coast of Kobe. However, three months later, Kosuke suddenly appears in Kagoshima and reunites with his partner, the vagrant Kumagoro. However, Kosuk ...

Fearless Comrades (1966)

The first film in the Fearless Guy series. Kosuke was part of a huge organized crime group, but decided to leave after his best friend died a brutal death at the hands of the gang leader. He goes on a trip with a guitar in his hand and ends up in Yokohama. ...

The Stormy Man (1966)

A remake of the 1957 classic "Man Who Raised a Storm" with Watari Tetsuya in the title role. ...

The Harbor of No Return (1966)

A jazz pianist named Shiro Tsuda returns from an overseas tour unwittingly carrying drugs that have been sewn into his jacket. When he stops by to see his girlfriend Kyoko, he walks in to find an unknown man attacking her. While struggling with the man, wh ...

Love Eternal (1966)

A deep mist envelops the port city of Yokohama. The scent of crime is everywhere. As an executive member of a drug trafficking syndicate, Kano is pretty high up in the food chain, but "status" bears no value to him. All he cares for is Ayako, the boss' mis ...

Love and Desire in the Night Mist (1966)

A film from Nikkatsu's "moodo akushon" (mood/action) subgenre. ...

Blood Shed (1966)

Ginjiro was born to a family of nobility, though he yearned for freedom. To earn this freedom, he affiliates himself with the worst of the worst. Swearing his allegiance to the notorious Kuroiwa crime syndicate, the yakuza family known for its thirst for ...

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 ...

The Black Gambler: Murderous Dice (1965)

As a foreign gambling ring tries to take over the Japanese underworld, Himuro the ace gambler must face their leader - and his dangerous gadgets… ...

Killer Sword (1965)

1884. The samurai days have come to an end. Capitalism and democracy flourished across Japan. But in Chichibu, an area just north of Tokyo, samurai spirits still lived. Out of the many schools that taught Japanese swordsmanship, the school of Ono and Kogen ...

Gambling Kitten (1965)

Arikawa runs a transport company. But this is only a front for his gambling house. Yuriko is a regular on the scene, and she is fascinated by the dice and the one who throws them. A year before, Yuriko's father died in mysterious circumstances; she deci ...

Thanks for the Tears (1965)

A film about two men who join the fight against a gang selling weapons. ...

Seishun no Sabaki (1965)

University karate club member Kikuo is actually the son of a yakuza boss. However, he disliked his father's business and never spoke about his family at school. One day, his father, Tatsuzo, becomes the guardian of the Yamanaka-gumi. ...

Ryuji's Journey: The Crest of Man (1965)

The new head of a powerful family faces danger from an evil rival out for blood. ...

Black Strait (1964)

Newly out of prison after killing his boss' rival, Akio Maki is eager to move on and start a new life with the boss' daughter. However, the chains of the past are not so easily broken and Maki is soon ordered to kill again. ...

Profit from Killing (1964)

The bustling Ikebukuro area was under the control of the Hanamura Kogyo yakuza gang, and there was no end to the violence. The tramp Bin Tsuzuki returns to his hometown after being released from Abashiri prison, and he is noticed when he saves a student fr ...

Quick-Draw Joe: Sand Dune Duel (1964)

An exciting and fast-paced entertaining action in which G-Man Joe of Aces (Japanese version 007) challenges a terrible international mafia organization based in Japan. To defeat the villains, Joe uses his unprecedented skills of fast shooting and karate se ...

A Wandering Gambler (1964)

Koji Himuro, a brilliant gambler, was killed by his brother and lover for discovering cheating gambling. As a result, he vows never to roll the dice, but gets involved in the incident everywhere he goes. The first in the "Black Gambler Series". The feature ...

Punishment of a Lawless Villian (1964)

In the early Meiji era, two contrasting craftsmen, who had been bound by a ten-year strong friendship, suddenly hated each other and face many obstacles. Adapted from Shugoro Yamamoto novel. ...

Gun Demon Without Form (1964)

A detective drama that realistically shows the work of an experienced detective who, under cover, pursues the organizer of the arms trade route from Kobe. ...

The Flower and the Angry Waves (1964)

A young yakuza in love with the girl who's to marry his clan oyabun, kidnaps the girl before fleeing with her. In Tokyo, he hides under the identity of a worker while the young woman becomes a waitress in a restaurant. ...

Kakedashi keiji (1964)

Fight of the Gamblers (1963)

Ryuji Oshima, a gambler, kills Saiga in self-defense, and considering himself unfit to lead men, secludes himself in a temple to atone for his misdeeds. At home, when his mother, the boss of a construction gang, bids for and gets the job of building the To ...

The Gambling Monk (1963)

One summer day, the chief monk of the Hojuin Temple dies. Harumichi rushes back to town hearing about his brother's death and requests for a grand funeral. He had been unwilling to take over the family business and had chosen a life as a middle school teac ...

Whirlwind Call the Storm - Ginza Hoodlum's Diary (1963)

A kidnapping occurred over a seven-million-dollar diamond that was sewn into his stomach. Takuya Nikaido, the hero of Kamideki, challenges the underground organization of fear. The final work of Asahi Kobayashi's "Ginza Whirlpool Child (Mitsugai)" series. ...

I Have the Sun in My Back (1963)

Shigeru is a young man who works as a window cleaner. His older brother Kenzo has just returned from prison and is determined to start life anew. But a battle for leadership within his old gang causes him to be framed for murder. Shigeru sets out to uncove ...

Traces of Lead (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

Wakai futari (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

Bōkyō no umi (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

Hageshī kawa (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

Jigoku no yoru wa makka da ze (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

The Man With Starry Eyes (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

Last Round (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

Dahil Sa Iyo – The Song of Sad Love (1962)

Sun and Stars (1962)

It's a thrilling, action-packed entertainer with sparks of men versus villains in an up-and-down tale of brothers burning with masculine will and passion. ...

Solo Traveler (1962)

12th in the Joe of Aces series. ...

Song of a Traveller (1962)

A crime film released in 1962 ...

A Torrent of Life (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

Nuki uchi fūraibō (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

Kidō sōsahan muhō chitai (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

Love in the Air (1962)

Satake Shoji had been a trapeze artist in the Ezaki Circus, but when Shingo, his team mate, slipped and fell to his death, he had felt responsible and, sick at heart, left the circus for a life at sea. On land again Shoji goes to a cabaret where he is soon ...

The Rambler Goes North (1962)

In the nine part Wataridori series (1959-1962), Kobayashi played a wanderer on Japan's back roads with most of the accoutrements of a Western hero, from a horse to fringes, guitar and even a trusty bullwhip. ...

The Black Scar (1961)

A yakuza frames another yakuza who goes to jail for 5 years. When he is released he goes to seek revenge only to fall in love with the daughter of the man who framed him. ...

Million Dollar Smash-and-Grab (1961)

A boxing melodrama. Two friends become boxers and begin training for the championship. These two boys eventually face each other in the ring. ...

Crimson Pistol (1961)

Wearing a symbol of justice and brotherhood on his waist – a crimson pistol belt, Ace Joe engages in a fight with villains trying to seize the mine. ...

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. ...

Standing Towards the Great Forest (1961)

Strife between competing lumber mills. ...

Pursuit (1961)

Tsuiseki is a 1961 crime film. ...

The Plateau Man (1961)

Japanese Western set at a mountain ranch in Kyushu. ...

Joe of Aces: Give and Take (1961)

Against the bosses of the underworld that dominate Yokohama, Kobe, and Hong Kong, ace Joe, who plays an invincible gunman, shows off his transcendent gunplay! The third installment of the business series. ...

Quick Draw Joe (1961)

One day, a lone horseman rides into town with a wounded man strapped behind him. Joe, the Ace, had captured one of the bandits who had held up the armored payroll car headed for the dam construction site, takes the wounded man to the police and claims the ...

A Killer Without a Grave (1961)

Nakata (Keiichiro Akagi) is a nihilistic young buck who is willing to do anything to get money in his pockets. As he knocks back a couple drinks that he knows he won't be able to afford, a former marksman-turned-bad, Ishioka approaches him. Ishioka is look ...

Yabure Kabure (1961)

Ambitious action drama about a young man living a carefree life of women and money, struggling to crawl out of the mire, and his lover who tries to save him at his own peril. ...

The Rambler under the Southern Cross (1961)

In the nine part Wataridori series (1959-1962), Kobayashi played a wanderer on Japan's back roads with most of the accoutrements of a Western hero, from a horse to fringes, guitar and even a trusty bullwhip. ...

Bet on a Seaside Romance (1960)

1960 action film. ...

The Warped Ones (1960)

A juvenile delinquent gets out of the pen and immediately embarks on a rampage of untethered anger, most of it directed at the girlfriend of the journalist who helped send him up. ...

The Man with a Sinister Laugh (1960)

After getting out of prison, a young yakuza tries to find out who killed his girlfriend, attempts not to get drawn back into crime, and to find his missing sister. ...

The Call of the Foghorn (1960)

A sailor is stuck in the harbor due to an engine failure in his boat, and he learns that a friend of his has died, reportedly from suicide. He begins to investigate the matter himself, and finds there may be more to the story... ...

The Rambler in the Sunset (1960)

The young rambler, Shinji Taki, with his guitar arrives a hot spa town at the foot of Mount Aizu Bandai. Of course he solves the problems in the town while encountering the sinister rival, Masa "the pistol guy". ...

Wind of Volcano (1960)

An airplane loaded with 50 million yen for the reconstruction of Amami Oshima crashes en route from Kagoshima, Kyushu, but neither the money nor the remains of the pilot can be found. ...

The Day of Youth (1960)

At Tokyo Gakuen University, Takema, son of Tatsunosuke, chief of the Waku gang, is a freshman who wishes to prepare himself for a better life away from gang activities despite the wishes of his father who wants him to assist strengthen the gang against the ...

The Sleeping Beast Within (1960)

A newspaper reporter's search for his girlfriend's missing father lead him into heart of the criminal underworld of Yokohama's Chinatown. ...

The Cards Will Tell (1960)

A 1960 crime film ...

Mighty Rules (1959)

The Wild Reporter (1959)

Seven years ago, Ishimatsu Toshio, a talented radio producer at Zen Nihon Hōsō, witnessed a crazed drug addict murder his wife and then commit suicide, though Toshio was able to save the lives of their two children. Just transferred from Shimizu to Tok ...

Yuganda tsuki (1959)

Wakai hyou no mure (1959)

A blockbuster youth action film that explodes with the charm of Maiko Guy and Akira, based on the serialized novel in Nikkan Sports by Yoshirō Akinaga, now adapted for the screen. Due to the passage of time since the film's release, some scenes may be mar ...

Passport to Darkness (1959)

A jazz bandleader, falsely accused of murdering his girlfriend, tries to stay one step ahead of the police as he dives into Tokyo's sin-city in search of the real killer. ...

Abashiri Prison (1959)

Also Known As: Abashiri Native Ground ...

A Man Explodes (1959)

Kensaku Muro and his father manage a farm in Sakudaira at the foot of the Yatsugatake Mountains. One day Kensuke saves a suicidal woman, Fukiko Uzu, who jumps into a waterfall. Having injured his eyes in the process, he is brought to Tokyo for medical trea ...

I Will Challenge (1959)

Akira, a student who is professionally engaged in boxing, aspires to follow in the footsteps of his late father and become a champion when, during training, he becomes embroiled in a murder case. His school friend is involved in the case, and Akira also be ...

Roar of the City (1958)

This action drama depicts a horrifying murder case over a photo of a mysterious beautiful woman hidden in a wallet, and the justice and love-hate relationship between the men involved in the case. ...

The Boy Who Came Back (1958)

Nobuo is a hot-headed hoodlum fresh out of reform school who struggles to make a clean break with his tearaway past. ...

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 ...

I Am Waiting (1957)

A former boxer gets involved with a club hostess trying to escape the clutches of her gangster employer. ...

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 ...

The Burmese Harp (1956)

In Burma during the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier separated from his unit disguises himself as a Buddhist monk to escape imprisonment as a POW. ...

Cell No. 8 (1956)

A man and a woman meet through a strange fate. This unique melodrama depicts the course of their budding love in a corner of the big city. ...

Tales of Ginza (1955)

In the thriving Tokyo neighborhood of Ginza, a woman in the process of selling her estranged husband's art collection attempts to identify the man who painted her own portrait fifteen years prior. ...