Shōzaburō Date

Voyage Into Space (1970)

Earth is invaded by an interstellar terrorist group, Big Fire (the Gargoyle Gang in the American version), led by Emperor Guillotine who spends most of his time in a multicolored space ship hidden at the bottom of Earth's ocean, from which he issues his or ...

The Woman Gambler's Trump Card (1969)

15th in the 17 film Daiei "Woman Gambler" series ...

Kanto Woman Infamy (1969)

Black Trump Card (1964)

Chairman of the Shin Nihon Kaihatsu company Fukazawa, using clever ways to circumvent the law, rose to the top of the economic backstage. Three people are sacrificed to his greed. The president of a small company who committed suicide, a Yakuza who died du ...

Sutekina 16-sai (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

Ōwarai Jiro chō ikka: Sanshita nitei kenjū (1962)

Comedy movie ...

Closing Time (1962)

Triangle Moods (1961)

Ayako Wakao portrays a downtown rice ball shop girl whose heart is set on her business. Involved in her life are three young men—stage actor Goro, businessman Kokichi and Sanpei Pachinko. ...

Fûun Shinsengumi (1961)

1961 Japanese film about the Shinsengumi. ...

Ren'ai Zubari Kōza (1961)

A omnibus movie consisting of the three parts: "Kechinbo", "Yowak" and "Kōshoku". ...

Zoku-sei to ningen (1961)

1961 Japanese movie ...

Tokaido hijokeikai (1960)

Crime film directed by Tatsuo Yamada for Shintoho. ...

The Ghost Cat of Otama Pond (1960)

Two lovers lost in the mountains. In what direction do not go, they find themselves in a mysterious forest pond, as if some kind of force does not want to let them go. Once upon a time, over a century ago, there had been a crime, whose shadow still hovers ...

Decisive Battle at Kuroda Castle (1960)

After the massacre of Christians at Shimabara, followers of Amakusa Shiro band together in a plot to overthrow the shogunate in order to exact revenge on the Tokugawa. At the same time there is a succession dispute in the Kuroda clan, as one faction tried ...

Daitengu shutsugen (1960)

Japanese film. ...

Casebook of Dandy Sashichi: Naked Princess and Mysterious Bear Man (1959)

This time around, Sashichi is investigating a case of serial murders believed to be perpetrated by a giant bear. ...

Casebook of Dandy Sashichi: Chests Covered In Fresh Blood (1959)

Sashichi investigates the mysterious murders of four beauties, all of whom were stabbed in the chest. ...

The Ghosts of Kagami Pond (1959)

A store manager named Kinbei becomes enraged when the owners of the store decide to hand it down to an adopted son instead of him. He hatches a plot to murder them all, but as it turns out he has done this sort of thing before. As bodies pile up in the nea ...

Queen of the China Sea (1959)

Rika, a manageress of a night club is about to be arrested on suspicion of smuggling. However, she escapes through the assistance rendered her by First Lieutenant Yokoyama of the Japanese Naval Commander's Office. After the end of war, Yokoyama plans to es ...

The Cast-Off (1959)

The inventor of a ground-breaking glue, Sanada, becomes rich thanks to his discovery a high executive in his company. Because of this promotion, his world is changing completely : his wife behaves like never before, considering she's now rich and has the r ...

The Lady Vampire (1959)

Tamio takes Itsuko to an art gallery and the two find one painting is a nude portrait of Itsuko's mother, who disappeared twenty years ago when she was just a baby. No one knows the first thing about the artist who painted it, but he goes by the name Shiro ...

The Most Valuable Wife (1959)

Kyoko is the third daughter of the Nonomiya family, a very ordinary family. Momoko, the eldest daughter, is married to Ichiro, the president of Mihara Shoji, and Riko, the second daughter, is married to Jiro, the managing director, and they plot to marry K ...

The Pacific War and the International Military Tribunal (1959)

In 1941, overpopulated Japan faces an economic boycott and its armed forces push further to the south. And despite negotiations between Japan and the U. S. A. war is declared with the attack on Pearl Harbour. Victories follow for Japan on land and sea and ...

Casebook of Dandy Sashichi: Dead Woman's Tattoo (1958)

The fifth volume of the Ningyo Sana Torimonocho series. Based on the original work by Seishi Yokomizo, the film was adapted by Mitsuo Kaneda (The Nude Model Murder Case), directed by Tatsuo Yamada, who worked on The Golden Bugyo, and shot by Kikuzo Kawasak ...

Giants and Toys (1958)

Nishi is an advertising executive for a caramel company that is planning to launch a new product, in fierce competition with two other companies. ...

Emperor & Empress Meiji and the Sino-Japanese War (1958)

Super Giant: The Artificial Satellite and the Destruction of Humanity (1957)

The 5th Super Giant film. Super Giant pursues a Nazi-like army that operates on a huge satellite in space. The satellite is armed with weapons that could destroy whole cities on Earth from afar. ...

Super Giant: Earth on the Verge of Destruction (1957)

The 4th Super Giant film, in which he continues his fight against the Kapia Aliens (Part 2 of 2) ...

Super Giant: The Mysterious Spacemen's Demonic Castle (1957)

The 3rd Super Giant film, in which he saves Earth from the threat of the reptile-like Kapia Aliens. ...

The Betrothed (1957)

Adaptation of the Yukio Mishima novel. ...

Bridge of Japan (1956)

Ichikawa's 1956 adaptation of Nihonbashi was the first to take the work of Kyoka Izumi— until then regarded as a writer of common tragic melodramas—and re-evaluate it as a tanbi-ha work of decadence, aestheticism, and intrigue. Ichikawa's film present ...

Nenneko Shain (1956)

A handsome and pure-hearted employee who thought he was single actually has a secret child. His girlfriend, a beautiful secretary, and the high-maintenance female manager suddenly panic, and the whole company is in an uproar. ...