Tatsuya Ishiguro

Young Boss: Prison Release (1965)

The further adventures of Takeshi Nanjo, the Young Boss. ...

Shinobi No Mono 6: The Last Iga Spy (1965)

[Period covered: 1637-1651] This is one of the most complicated plots of any of the Shinobi no Mono films! This film tells the story of Saizo's son, Kirigakure Saisuke, who after seeing his father die at the Battle Of Shimabara, grows up to be an expert ni ...

The Witness' Chair (1965)

Murder case and trial. ...

Young Boss (1965)

After a yakuza boss is assassinated by a rival, his naval officer son returns home to take over the gang. ...

Che, Che, Che with Love (1965)

A musical romance. ...

Black Thief (1964)

Organized thieves battle against the Shogun's ruthless ruling in attempt to get back their land. ...

Kojiki taishō (1964)

Fight, Zatoichi, Fight (1964)

Blind swordsman/masseuse Zatoichi befriends a young woman returning home with her baby. When gangsters mistake her for Zatoichi and kill her, Zatoichi determines to escort the baby to its father. He gains the reluctant help of a young pick pocket and toget ...

Superexpress (1964)

A man operates a small real estate business near Osaka. A man from Tokyo asks for help in buying a large tract of land in order, he says, to build an automobile factory. But by accident the realtor learns that the Tokaido Railway Line is going to be built ...

The Sandal Keeper (1964)

Toyotomi Hideyoshi (Hitoshi Ueki) starts out as Nobunaga's "Sandal Keeper" but climbs the ranks to eventually become a trusted general. ...

Black Weapon (1964)

Industrial espionage gets in the way of love and marriage for factory worker Katayanagi. ...

Three Outlaw Samurai (1964)

Shiba, a wandering ronin, encounters a band of peasants who have kidnapped the daughter of their dictatorial magistrate, in hopes of coercing from him a reduction in taxes. Shiba takes up their fight, joined by two renegades from the magistrate's guard, Sa ...

The Irresponsible Fool (1964)

Picked up and raised on an island in the Seto Inland Sea, Yasukichi's only trait is his innate mischievousness. However, because his love for his hometown is exceptionally stronger than anybody's, he is trying everything he can to somehow help the inhabita ...

A Public Benefactor (1964)

The intense selfishness of a man brings him fame and fortune but not happiness. ...

Zatoichi and the Chest of Gold (1964)

Ichi travels to the village of Itakura to pay his respects at the grave of Kichizo, a man he killed two years ago. When some tax money is stolen while in transit to the governor he is accused and sets out to find the money and clear his name. ...

The Honest Fool (1964)

Yasugoro, goes to live in a quiet town where he falls in love with the priest's daughter-in-law. His does not declare his love because she is married, but he goes on a mission to please her, and is blinded. Then her husband dies and she remarries before Ya ...

Ōkuma Shigenobu the great (1963)

The biopic of Shigenobu Ōkuma, one of the main Japanese leaders at the turn of the 20th century, a supporter of rapprochement with the United Kingdom, and who brought his country into the Triple Entente against the German Empire. ...

Bronze Magician (1963)

A story loosely based on the affair between Empress Kōken-Shōtoku and the monk Dōkyō, set during the Nara period (710–794 A.D.). ...

A Legend or Was It? (1963)

A Tokyo family escaping the war relocates to a Hokkaido village; their daughter is set to marry the local leader's son, but her siblings disapprove. ...

Shinobi no Mono 2: Vengeance (1963)

[Period covered: 1582-1594]. As the film opens, the warlod Nobunaga Oda rides to Iga Ayanokuni shrine. He is asked if he thinks he has destroyed all the ninja who opposed him and answers that he suspects that there may be more. A servant brings water and t ...

Edo Ninja Scroll: Seven Shadows (1963)

During the reign of Shogun Tsunayoshi, seven ninja of the Koga clan secretly plot against the illegitimate son of the former shogun. ...

The Third Shadow Warrior (1963)

In the mountain regions of Hida, the dreams of a peasant named Kyonosuke, who longed to be a samurai, come true when he becomes one of three doubles, of shadows, of Lord Yasutaka. After months of intense and cruel training, he faces his destiny when the Lo ...

Street of Wandering Men (1963)

When a group of men from the Hanya clan search his town for a missing geisha, a brave ronin decides to help her and a drunken calligrapher. In doing so, he uncovers a wider scheme. ...

Shinsengumi Chronicles (1963)

As winds of change sweep Japan, an honest man joins the Shinsengumi out of admiration for its leader, and because he wants to live and die as a samurai. However, as his involvement grows, reality and idealism come into deadly conflict. ...

The Paper Crane (1962)

A wandering vagrant, Hantaro, risks his life to save a beautiful blind girl and her father from con artists. ...

Waka zakura kenka matoi (1962)

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Hell's Assassin (1962)

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At the Side of the Bridge 2 (1962)

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Ken ni kakeru (1962)

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. ...

Long Swords of the Loyal Forty-Seven (1962)

The Tragedy of a Young Warrior (1962)

Shortly after the Meiji Restoration, young people devoted to the teachings of Saigo Takamori trained day and night at Seiyun Juku in Kagoshima, Kyushu. Shuntaro Amano (Yukio Hashi) entered the school after going through numerous trials and tribulations, an ...

Yoka chigo zakura Make no wakamusha (1962)

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At the Side of the Bridge (1962)

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Kumoemon to sono tsuma (1962)

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Secret Love (1962)

A painfully sad woman's heart cries from forbidden love. A love triangle drawn by three stars of Japanese cinema: Keiji Sada, Miyuki Kuwano and Keiko Awaji. ...

Kisaragi Sword (1962)

The story concerns the efforts of seven master swordsman who join together to protect the new inexperienced Shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune from the evil plans of the Owari Clan's corrupt Lord. It's a colorful bunch, a drunk samurai, a master thief, a sword inst ...

The Pacific War and Himeyuri Corps (1962)

The last fight put up by remaining forces and a special volunteer nursing corps in 1944-5. ...

Otoko no Uta (1962)

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Koshū (1962)

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Tales of Young Genji Kuro 3 (1962)

In the third, and final chapter of this epic tale, handsome swordsman Genji helps a vulnerable princess who is in search of a missing scroll that belongs to the Shogun. This is one of the most highly regarded trilogies featuring a youthful Nakamura Kinnosu ...

Her Hidden Past (1962)

Adaptation of a famous Kyouka Izumi novel. Set in the early 1900's, it tells the story of the impossible love between a young scholar a beautiful geisha. ...

The Prickly Mouthed Geisha and the Girl of Osaka (1962)

A geisha helps a runaway who looks just like her. ...

Bored Hatamoto: The Mysterious Coral Mansion (1962)

Bored Hatamoto movie #29 ...

South Pacific Waves Are High (1962)

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Flowers of Chivalry (1961)

Kayama Ichinoshin (Raizo Ichikawa) has been traveling for ten years in search of revenge for his father. One day, Ichinoshin reunites with his younger brother Shinjiro (Yukio Hashi), who has completely changed. Shinjiro abandoned the quiet samurai life and ...

Devil's Nursery Rhyme (1961)

1961 Toei adaptation of Yokomizo's novel. ...

Koina no Ginpei (1961)

The Prickly-Mouthed Geisha Goes to Sado (1961)

Koharu, a flamboyant geisha, unexpectedly wins a trip to Sado Island in a TV contest. She is accompanied by three people. Koharu had been dreaming of a handsome young man, but when she gets into the first-class car, she meets Tashiro, a pretentious young m ...

Mito Komon’s Journey to Ezo (1961)

Daiei Film Company's three biggest stars shine in this exciting story about Vice-Shogun Mito Komon's journey to the land of the Ainu. As the shogun's uncle, Lord Mito traveled about the nation seeking to make sure that corruption and injustice did not go u ...

Tale of Ａ Company Boss Pt.２ (1961)

1961 Toei comedy ...

Kita kamigawa ereji (1961)

Gonin no totsugeki tai (1961)

Hattari Seinen Shinshi (1961)

Japanese comedy film. ...

Edo Purebreed (1961)

Action and adventure abound in this story of friendship between two rival firefighters, Kichigoro and Jirokichi in old Japan. When Mukai Sadayu, the vassal of Kaga Clan's accounting officer, Shinagawa Daihachi demands that Omon serve him tea in his mansion ...

Unruly Lion (1961)

The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer (1961)

After the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria. Intent on returning to his old life, he faces great odds in a variety of different harrowing circumstances as he and his men sneak behind enemy lines. ...

Kojiro's Turning Swallow Cut (1961)

The story of Sasaki Kojiro, a young swordsman, and his quest to train under master Seigen and develop his own style. ...

Satan's Sword: The Dragon God (1960)

The sequel to Daibosatsu tôge (1960) and the second of the trilogy follows the adventures of Ryunosuke Tsukue after he is blinded. ...

Lord Tadanao (1960)

Towering Waves (1960)

A young prosecutor named Takao falls in love with Yoriko, only to discover that her husband is the target of his investigation into a major corruption scandal. Torn between professional duty and their forbidden affair, the couple finds themselves trapped b ...

Honno-Ji in Flames (1960)

The plot is based on the novel "Akechi Samanosuke no Koi," the final work in a trilogy by Hiroshi Kato about the forced suicide of Oda Nobunaga at the temple Honnoji. Historically, the general Akechi Mitsuhide is credited with causing Nobunaga's downfall. ...

Jirocho Fuji 2: The Chivalrous (1960)

The exciting story of Jirocho and his yakuza gang that controlled the area of the Tokaido during the latter days of the samurai era. Awesome fighting from Katsu Shintaro as One-Eyed Ishimatsu highlights this great tale taken from Japanese history! ...

Pfc. Story - Behind the Enemy Lines (1960)

First "Pfc. Story" sequel and eighth overall sequel to "Story of Second Class Private". ...

Official with a Tattoo (1960)

Kinnosuke of Toyama sets out on a private mission to clear his father's name for a crime he did not commit. ...

Echigo jishi-sai (1960)

1960 version of Lion Festival of Echigo ...

The Wandering Princess (1960)

Pu Zhe, younger brother of the Emperor of Manchukuo, marries Ryuko, daughter of an aristocratic family. To the surprise of all, a deep love between Pu Zhe and Ryuko develops and is put to the test when Japan loses the war. ...

The Two Musashis (1960)

During the reign of Shogun Hidetada, both Hirate Musashi and Okamoto Musashi strive to become the finest swordsman in the land by defeating the Yagyu clan's top instructors and then taking on Sasaki Kojiro! ...

Fires on the Plain (1959)

In the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier afflicted with tuberculosis is abandoned by his company and left to wander the Philippine island of Leyte. ...

Pfc. Story - The Divine Tempest (1959)

First installment of the "Pfc. Story" series of military-themed comedies from Shochiku, and seventh overall sequel to "Story of Second Class Private". ...

Sword of Vision (1959)

Yagyu Jubei proves his skills in this early adventure film. ...

Denshichi Torimonocho: Silver Snake Spell (1959)

The eleventh episode of the Denshichi Torimonocho series. Around the time of Shogun Ienari, a murderer known as a ghost hikyaku appeared in Edo, raping and killing young girls one after another. One night, a notice was recieved that Oichi, the daughter of ...

Sudden Attack of the Christian Lord (1959)

A Thousand Flying Cranes (1959)

Nitōhei monogatari: Banji yōryō no maki (1959)

Sixth sequel to "Story of Second Class Private". ...

The Hidden Treasure (1959)

Shochiku's commemorative 3000th film production; a suspenseful period drama. ...

Yutaro's Secret Story (1959)

Yutaro Kodan, born under a cloud because his aristocrat father died opposing the shogunate, stumbles onto a treasure map. Lusting after the treasure, Lord Sumi Tadamasa convinces trusting Princess Tsu that the gold will help to avenge her lost clan. ...

Nitōhei monogatari: Aa senyū no maki (1958)

Fifth sequel to "Story of Second Class Private". ...

The Undefeated Woman (1958)

The Undefeated Woman ...

A Grain of Wheat (1958)

The film depicts a group of boys and girls who graduate from a local junior high school and head to Tokyo to find employment, and the teachers who watch over them. Co-written by newcomer Shigeki Chiba and Kaneto Shindo, the film was directed by Kozaburo Yo ...

Taikoki - The Saga of Hideyoshi (1958)

From birth Hideyoshi was a restless, defiant spirit--a child of the poorest of the poor. Cast out of his peasant cottage, he would live by his wits, driven by his burning ambition to become a samurai and to find a warlord worth pledging his sword to. This ...

Nitōhei monogatari: Shindara kami-sama no maki (1958)

Fourth sequel to "Story of Second Class Private". ...

Denshichi Torimonocho: Mad Skullwoman (1958)

Detective Denshichi is called to investigate the mysterious disappearance of the Kishu family's daughter Teruhime and the activities of a dangerous group dressed as skulls and their female leader. ...

Akagi no komori-uta (1957)

Film directed by Tadashi Ashihara ...

Secret of Naruto (1957)

From the pen of Yoshikawa Eiji comes this exciting story. The Naruto Strait separates Tokushima from the islands of Awaji and Honshu. On Tokushima the mad lord dreams of conquest and forges a bloody revolt against the Tokugawa shogunate. A mysterious sword ...

Denshichi Torimonocho: The Curse of the Silver Snake (1957)

Kofu duty guard Yamauchi Hinata-kami cultivated illegal drugs and had them sold through Omiya, a drug wholesaler in Edo Muromachi. One day, a strange spell descends on Omiya, killing his wife Osetsu, and then his second daughter Okyo as well. After that, t ...

A Matter of Valour (1957)

Chushingura has been made into a movie several times before, but this time it will be presented in a widescreen version with all natural colors and a new look. Written by Masato Ide and directed by Tatsuo Osone. This is a magnificent scroll of images that ...

Yataro’s Travel Hat (1957)

Jigoku bana (1957)

Period drama based on the novel by Saisei Murō. ...

Street of Ronin (1957)

Based on the famous novel by Yamagami Itaro, this is the story of a group of ronin living in abject poverty in the latter days of the Edo period. Starring the great Konoe Jushiro, Ronin Gai is populated by an ensemble of colorful characters, social outcast ...

The Detective Denshichi Case Files: The Beautiful Bat (1957)

The head of Oshu, Harumichi Honma, was ordered by the boat bugyo (Commissioner of the board) Tajima Kuze to extract five gold coins to the Shogun family in Edo, and put it into Ryujin Maru. However, Tajima, who was the chief retainer of the shogunate, said ...

I Will Buy You (1956)

A talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising baseball player to The Toyko Flowers. ...

Flowery Hood (1956)

Fountainhead (1956)

A botanist woos the secretary of an industrialist whose company threatens the local water supply. ...

Namida no hanamichi (1956)

Nakamura Yukinojō, Edo's most popular actor, discovered that his parent's enemy, Ohara Genba, had changed his name to Isshiki Kurōnosuke and become a hatamoto, a direct retainer of the shogun. Yukinojō's younger brother, Shingorō, traveling to Edo from ...

Ejima and Ikushima (1955)

This period film is inspired by one of the most notorious scandals to have taken place in Edo-period Japan. The heroine, Ejima, was a lady of the Ooku, the harem of Edo Castle in which the Shogun's mother, wife and concubines resided, forbidden from contac ...

The Samurai of Edo (1955)

This historical film depicts the life of a man who was at the mercy of the waves during transition from the end of the Edo period to the Meiji Restoration, and therefore, shows audience the dynamic change from Edo to Meiji. Before the war, the director, E ...

Taira Clan Saga (1955)

Japan, 1137. The Taira family, a samurai clan, becomes involved in the disputes between Emperor Toba and the monks of Mount Hiei. ...

Passion and Rifle Bullets (1955)

Private Detective Ippei Shizuno faces off against a serial killer and a wealthy woman's society who runs an illegal gun trade. ...

Princess Yang Kwei-fei (1955)

In 8th-century China, the Emperor grieves the death of his wife. The Yang family wants to provide the Emperor with a consort so that they may consolidate their court influence. General An Lushan finds a distant relative working in their kitchen, whom they ...

Bodyguard from Hell (1955)

Kitagawa, a drug control officer in the Kanto Shinetsu area, was ordered to investigate the situation of drug trafficking around Yokohama. ...

Casebook of Dandy Sashichi: Blind Wolf (1955)

In this movie, Sashichi tries to catch a serial killer who kills his victims with shurikens. ...

Striving to Live (1955)

Yasuichiro Isa, who works in the labor section of Sone Mining Tokyo Headquarters, paid a monthly fee for his younger brother, Reiji, who was in trouble because he had a bonus of 10,000 yen more. ...

My Pistol Is Quick (1954)

Chikamatsu Monogatari (1954)

When the wife of a 17th-century Kyoto scrollmaker is falsely accused of having an affair with his best employee, the pair flee the city and find themselves truly falling for one another. ...

Turbid Youth (1954)

Shigeki Kachi, Tosuke Satomura, and Nanako, who belong to the theater company Vuanbert around Dosa, withdrew at the indignation of the chairman Hayashi and seeked their own careers in the film industry. ...

A Samurai's Love (1954)

A film about the Ghost of Okiku that's based on the kabuki play Bancho Sarayashiki. ...

Hanran (1954)

Gate of Hell (1953)

Japan, 1159. Moritō, a brave samurai, performs a heroic act by rescuing the lovely Kesa during a violent uprising. Moritō falls in love with her, but becomes distraught when he finds out that she is married. ...

Youth of Heiji Senigata (1953)

Yasen kangofu (1953)

In 1942 South China, hardened field hospital nurse Yukiko secretly loves Sergeant Nemoto. The arrival of a fragile new nurse, Keiko, reawakens Yukiko's warmth but also sparks intense jealousy when Nemoto shows Keiko kindness. As the two bond over a shared ...

Jirocho's Home-Coming (1953)

The "sangokushi" films beginning with Jirocho sangokkushi: Nagurikomi kojinyama (Jirocho's Tale of Three Provinces, 1952) were based on a novel by Genzo Murakami (1910-2006), who had films based on other of his books on Musashi Miyamoto's adversary Sasaki ...

Wife (1953)

Ten years into a marriage, the wife is disappointed by the husband's lack of financial success, meaning she has to work and can't treat herself and the husband finds the wife slovenly and mean-spirited: she neither cooks not cleans particularly well and is ...

Castle of Revenge (1952)

The film vividly shows the misadventures of Oishi Kuranosuke and the human dramas inside the castle, which lead to the surrender of Ako Castle after seppuku by its lord Asano Takumi-no-kami and the termination of his family's power. This is the first film ...

Dedication of the Great Buddha (1952)

The film depicts how the work to build the Great Buddha overcame a number of obstacles as proponents and opponents clashed over the construction of the Buddha. This work is based on a play by Hideo Osada, which was performed by the Shin Kyodo Theater Compa ...

The Stand in Hakone (1952)

A period film about a peasant revolt in the region near Mount Fuji, occasioned by high officials' depriving the farmers of their water rights. ...

Mr. Lucky (1952)

The Man Without a Nationality (1951)

Thriller drama by Kon Ichikawa ...

The White Orchid (1951)

A Japanese adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's short story Boule de Suif, directed by Kimura Keigo ...

A Spectacular Murder (1951)

When a theater producer Kurato is murdered in the audience on opening night, Inspector Kawano investigates the prop pistols used on stage, but all were fake. That same night, a dancer in the troupe went missing and a police officer was shot with the same c ...

Senka o koete (1950)

White Beast (1950)

Keiko Yukawa is a former prostitute and the newest inmate at White Lily, a female rehabilitation facility. ...

Kirare no Senta (1949)

Directed by Eisuke Takizawa ...

Goblin Courier (1949)

Jida-geki by Santaro Marune. ...

Actress (1947)

During the late Meiji period, at the beginning of the twentieth century, Sumako, a country girl, becomes a great actress with the help of Hogetsu, a scholar who brought European realism to the Japanese stage. The relationship leads to the end of his marria ...

Spring Awakens (1947)

Slice of life film centered on a couple of years in the life of a rural high school girl. ...

Todoroki Sensei (1947)

Based on the comic by Kaoru Akiyoshi ...

Aru yo no seppun (1946)

The romantic struggles of three close friends who came back from the war. ...

Who Is the Criminal? (1945)

1945 Japanese movie ...

Umi no tora (1945)

1945 Japanese movie ...

Sugata naki teki (1945)

1945 Japanese movie ...

Signal Fires of Shanghai (1944)

During the Taiping Rebellion of the mid-19th century, anti-Qing (Manchu) Chinese forces led by Taiping commander Li Xiucheng march on Shanghai. Although the Western powers are officially neutral, the British consul in Shanghai sides with the Qing imperial ...

The Man From Chungking (1943)

Mysterious incident at a secret factory! Important documents lost! What is the true identity of the enemy's invisible spy? ...

New Snow (1942)

Minowada, a young teacher at a National People's School, has his own theory of education and the daughter of his linguistics teacher becomes drawn to him. Kayo, a strong-willed doctor, is also attracted to him. A mediator tries to arrange a marriage but ju ...

Oichi no kata (1942)

The Battle of Kawanakajima (1941)

This epic depicts the battle between Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen. The focus of the story is the struggle by the unit leader in charge of the main supply wagons and the supply troops to transport materiel to the Uesugi army. To this are added episodes ...