Shosei Muto

The Unruly Ronin's Journey II (1992)

Formerly a covert spy under the shogunate, ronin Azami Onijuro and his carefree companion, ronin, journeyed along the Kiso Highway. As they approached the Echizen Domain, they encountered a woman named Osode. Recognizing Onijuro's formidable skills, she as ...

Seven Days War (1988)

A community is in turmoil when junior high schoolers barricade themselves in an empty factory to protest the draconian rules of parents and teachers. They're sick of heavy-handed teachers and iron-fisted parents. And now they're going to do something about ...

Port Arthur (1980)

Depicts the bloody siege of the fortress of Port Arthur, one of the most strongly fortified positions in the world, during the Russo-Japanese War of (1904 - 1905). In the story dominated the character Lt Takeshi Kogyo (Teruhiko Aoi), teachers, and a reserv ...

Stop the Zero Plan - Kidnap the Prime Minister! (1979)

Samonji, a reporter, receives a message on his answering machine from his friend Takada that says "stop it... zero plan! February." Learning that Takada is dead, Samonji begins an investigation. He and his younger sister Fumiko investigate major events hap ...

I Am A Man of Honor (1977)

The sixth film of the "Truck Yaro" series. Two long-distance truckers, Momojiro and Kinzo, travel around Japan in highly decorated trucks. In Kyushu, Momojiro falls in love again... this time with a beautiful college student Masako. ...

Ame no meguri ai (1977)

Japanese drama film. ...

Case of the Disjointed Murder (1977)

In the summer of 1947, various men and women gather at a mansion in the countryside at the invitation of Kazuma Utagawa. They are artists, novelists, poets, painters, playwrights, actresses, etc. Then the murders begin, one after another. The incident s ...

Without Complaint (1975)

Based on the novel of the same name by Seichô Matsumoto. ...

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 ...

Miyamoto Musashi (1973)

In Part I we see the young would-be swordsman setting out to achieve greatness in war, achieving nothing because fighting on the losing side, & then beginning his long period of wandering & training, with the goal always in mind of his duel with Kojiro. Pa ...

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). ...

Godzilla vs. Gigan (1972)

Manga artist Gengo Odaka lands a job with the World Children's Land amusement park only to become suspicious of the organization when a garbled message is discovered on tapes. As Gengo and his team investigate, Godzilla and Anguirus quickly decipher the me ...

Shadow of Love (1972)

Spartan Education (1970)

In a match where professional baseball referee Yuzo Tagami was observing a young referee, Hara, a player who got angry at the indecisive judge, knocked the referee down. Tagami lived with his wife and five children, but when he returned home, Hara, who had ...

Abare chōhan (1970)

The Summit of Mt. Fuji (1970)

The Japanese government decides to install a radar on the top of Mt. Fuji, in order to detect typhoons as far as 800 km south of the Japanese archipelago, but the task will not be easy. ...

Woman's Police: Appointment with Danger (1970)

Kagari (Akira Kobayashi), a scout and overseer of Ginza bar hostesses, receives an urgent phone call from Sawako, a hostess at the bar Rie, and rushes to Tokyo International Airport to meet her. When he arrives she is gone. At the bar he learns that Tabuch ...

Safari 5000 (1969)

A Japanese racing driver for Nissan named Godai (Yujiro Ishihara) have a rivalry with a French driver named Pierre (Jean-Claude Drouot). Godai is enlisted to race in an annual endurance race, The East African Safari Rally. Peripheral to this is the story ...

Outlaw: Kill! (1969)

Goro has always been a lone wolf. When he arrives at an industrial city in Keihin, there is certain restlessness in the air. The Iriezaki family and the Kanto Touyu-kai were in the midst of a territorial dispute. Goro was quick to notice, but had no intent ...

The Sands of Kurobe (1968)

Kitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps for the transportation of equipment in the building of the massive Kurobe Dam. The tunnel crosses an earthquake fault and Kitagawa is beleaguered not only by cave ...

Dice and Swords (1968)

The year is 1926. It has been three years since the Great Kanto earthquake hit Tokyo. Everything is being rebuilt from the ground up. Odera crime syndicate saw this as an opportunity to expand its territory. The Odera boss arranges marriage between his dau ...

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. ...

The Scarred Angel (1966)

A musical film based on the original work of Saigo Teruhiko. After leaving the juvenile detention center and returning to his hometown of Ibusuki, Hachiro begins to investigate the cause of his older sister Sumiko's suicide. While Hachiro was in juvenile d ...

Night of Sorrow (1966)

A young lawyer looking for a true culprit to save his innocent friend. But behind the case is the father of a woman he loves. ...

In Tears (1965)

Hiroshi is the second officer on board the Hakuromaru. Lead by his captain, he heads out to town to recruit new crew members for their next voyage. Hiroshi is baffled when his captain approaches the Daigo-Kuroshiomaru crew, a notorious group nicknamed "the ...

A Chain of Islands (1965)

When a US army sergeant is found drowned in Tokyo Bay, an investigation is launched to determine how and why he lost his life. The investigation uncovers a black market scheme involving counterfeit money, murder, and conspiracy. ...

Song of Farewell (1965)

After her mother's funeral, Yuriko, dressed in mourning clothes, sees off her lover Shintaro as he leaves in the powdery snow, and resolves to part ways with him forever. However, in Yuriko's heart... Pure love duo Yoshinaga and Hamada rigorously pursue a ...

Tiger of the Sea (1964)

A group of pirates sail the treacherous Pacific ocean in search for wealth. ...

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 Dragon Crest (1963)

A violent story of loyalty and revenge among the many "yakuza" or gambling groups in Japan. ...

The Symbol of a Man (1963)

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

Ore wa Jigoku no Butaichou (1963)

Hore tatte dame yo (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

Hitoribotchi no futari daga (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

Hageshī kawa (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

The Young and Bad (1962)

Not too long ago, Soichiro was considered one of the most powerful men in business. But his business had failed, his granddaughter had committed suicide. There was nothing in his life anymore that he could look forward to. Sochiro was ready to put an to it ...

The Rambler Returns Home (1962)

Final installment of THE WANDERING GUITARIST series. ...

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

Facing to the Clouds (1962)

A rookie newspaper journalist, Takema Sakaki, has a strong sense of justice. In the Diet Building he gets acquainted with a library worker, Reiko Nakafuji. Reiko's father was a member of the Diet who was assassinated six years ago. Through Reiko, Takema jo ...

Black Dice (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

Season of Farewell (1962)

A touching story of a girl who sails away from her love to keep her family together. ...

Otoko to otoko no ikiru machi (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

That Guy and I (1961)

Asada Keiko and Kurokawa Saburo are two young college students. When Keiko visits Saburo's house, she meets his father Kokichi and his mother Motoko. Motoko is a famous hair dresser, who openly flaunts her lover. When Kokichi and Motoko fight, which they d ...

The Story of a Salesman: Every Man Has a Dream (1961)

A lighthearted comedy that tells the story of love and the cheerful heroism of a young salesman pursuing a man's dream. ...

Lost in the Sun (1961)

Kitakami Nocturne (1961)

Keisuke and Shizuko grew up by the Kitakami river and came to fall in love before they knew it. Eighteen years ago, Shizuko was left an orphan and was taken in by Keisuke's parents, who had raised her as their own child. At the riverside when the cherry bl ...

The Diary of a Police Officer: The Slammer Is Full (1961)

A small provincial town surrounded by mountains and fields in northeastern Japan. Here a group of eight policemen solve a series of unusual cases, ranging from extortion, to drunken fathers, to corruption and even the persecution of a man who claims to be ...

For This We Fight (1961)

1961 Japanese movie ...

Covered Wagon (1960)

A Western-inspired film where a pair of traveling beekeepers odyssey by covered wagon from Kyushu, the southernmost of the Japanese archipelago's major islands, to Hokkaido, it's northernmost. ...

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. ...

Lone Wolf (1960)

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 Cards Will Tell (1960)

A 1960 crime film ...

Woman from the Sea (1959)

While in vacation in a sea side house, a young man fall in love with a beautiful woman who pretends to live by herself in the sea. The fishermen of a nearby village think she is a monster, the female of a shark killed many years before, responsible for man ...

Farewell to Southern Tosa (1959)

Story of an ex-con trying to go straight, but of course the old ways die hard. ...

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 ...

Unripe Fruit (1959)

A youth lyrical painting depicting a sensitive young man with rich poetic feelings focused on the concerns and aspirations of a high school student. ...

The Perfect Game (1958)

College students come up with a scam to rob a gambling house. When it comes time to collect, the money isn't there, leading the young men into even more serious crime. ...

Taiyō o buchi otose (1958)

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. ...

Breasts and Bullets (1958)

Japanese crime film ...

Teen Age Trap (1957)

Japanese drama film. ...

Temptation (1957)

Shokichi, the owner of the clothing store, lives with his daughter Hideko and plans to open an art gallery. One day, Hideko led a handsome art student, Shohei and a poor painter, Sohei. Sohei's painting was praised by a great printer at the completion cere ...

A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era (1957)

Saheji, a man-about-town, gets stuck at a high-class brothel when he can't pay the bill. He makes the best of his situation by performing various tasks amidst the tumult of the end of the shogunate—but always by making sure to get a "commission" for his ...

Who's the Real Killer (1957)

Film about a car dealer who gets into financial trouble. ...

Birth of a Jazz Maiden (1957)

Kawai Midori's father left the family a long time ago and since her mother passed away, she has taken care of her younger siblings by herself by working with a group of itinerant camellia oil peddlers. While she is In Izu selling camellia oil, she meets a ...

Joshiryōsai (1957)

Nikoyon monogatari (1956)

Japanese drama film. ...

Confession (1956)

Till We Meet Again (1955)

Jiro Sone sacrifices all comfort to devote himself to research. Young housewife Yachiyo is disappointed with her husband Kappei, who is more attracted to mountain climbing and another girl. When Yachiyo's father is introduced to Jiro, all of their lives be ...