Teruko Ōmi

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 ...

Kumo no Yuna (1971)

Hiding-Place in the Storm (1971)

Kataashi no ēsu (1971)

Wakaki hi no kōdōkan (1971)

Child Bride (1970)

The Hot Little Girl (1970)

A model gets involved with some gangsters trying to pull a big deal. ...

The Good Little Bad Girl (1970)

Zatoichi Goes to the Fire Festival (1970)

The blind masseuse is targeted by the leader of a powerful yakuza group while also fending off a jealous husband bent on revenge. Zatoichi tours Edo's underground via a rousing onsen fight scene, gambling houses and the gender-bending character of Umeji, b ...

Ghost of Kasane Swamp (1970)

One murky night, Soetsu, a blind acupuncturist and money lender, calls on Shinzaemon Fukami, a Hatamoto samurai, to collect some money. But Fukami is too busy having an affair with a maid and curtly tells Soetsu to ask Sawano, his wife, for the money. As t ...

The Angry Sword (1970)

Story about a gambler who gets involved in a struggle between companies. ...

Zoku Isoginchaku (1970)

The Curse of the Ghost (1969)

About 1786 the doings of a demented lord results in many masterless samurai, including Iyemon (Kei Sato) who is used to luxury and cannot adjust to the hand-to-mouth conditions & piecework of umbrella making. Having hired ruffians to make him look like a s ...

Lefty Fencer (1969)

As a child, Okin the one-armed one-eyed swordswoman was disfigured by Lord Daizen-dayu, who was after her family's most treasured possession, the famed Drenched Swallow sword. As an adult, she has become a skilled swordswoman and lives a carefree life with ...

Broken Swords (1969)

The tragic, yet exciting story of the friendship between Nakayama Yasubei, a member of the 47 Ronin, and Tange Tenzen, a relative by marriage of the vile Lord Kira. ...

Crimes of Sex (1969)

An omnibus comedy in which an unique lawyer teaches about laws regarding sex crimes. ...

Samaritan Zatoichi (1968)

Zatoichi is forced to kill a young man who owes a debt to a yakuza boss. Moments later, his sister Osode arrives with the money she earned (prostituting herself) to pay his debts. The bosses true motives are revealed and he attempts to steal Osode even tho ...

Hoodlum Priest And The Gold Mint (1968)

It's cross and double-cross in these further adventures of Ryuzen, the wayward priest played by Katsu Shintaro as he tries to help a woman who may be the heir to a fortune get what is rightfully hers. Matsuo Kayo, who first rose to international stardom as ...

Zatoichi and the Fugitives (1968)

Zatoichi runs afoul of some evil fugitives, working for a corrupt law official. ...

Hoodlum Soldier on the Attack (1967)

Tokyo Gambler (1967)

Drunken Harbor (1966)

Third film of the yoidore hakase series ...

Assignment Cloud (1966)

A sequel to the popular "The School of Spies", this film continues the adventures of one of the graduates who is assigned to crack a powerful spy ring working out of Kobe. Various people are suspected but, finally, it seems that an Army captain and his gei ...

Dynamite Doctor (1966)

Film by director Kenji Misumi ...

Sleepy Eyes of Death 5: Sword of Fire (1965)

Fifth film in the series. When Kyoshiro, in a moment of weakness, saves the life of a woman being attacked on the road, he quickly finds himself entangled in a conspiracy involving a corrupt chamberlain, a wily merchant, the survivors of a pirate gang, an ...

Adventures of Zatoichi (1964)

Blind swordsman/masseuse Zatoichi befriends a young woman looking for her father, a village leader who has disappeared. As he helps her investigate the disappearance, Zatoichi also becomes involved with another young woman who is trying to help her brother ...

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 ...

Zatoichi's Flashing Sword (1964)

Blind masseur Zatoichi is nursed back to health by a young woman after he is shot by a gang member. Zatoichi, who had come to the village to repay a debt, now feels further indebted. He commits himself to use his amazing sword skills to help the young woma ...

Black Challenger (1964)

Young lawyer Jiro receives a late night phone call from a distraught woman sending him on a journey to uncover corruption and exploitation stemming from those at the very top of society. ...

Zatoichi on the Road (1963)

Zatoichi is sworn to protect the life of a young girl and without any real allies finds himself in the middle of a bloody turf war. ...

Zatoichi the Fugitive (1963)

After arriving in the town of Shimonita, Ichi finds that a price has been put on his head by a local yakuza boss. He's drawn into a trap, but after hearing of the slaying of a former love, Ichi furiously fights his way through the entire clan to face the k ...

The Third Will (1963)

A story about a wealthy family and the greed and selfishness of three daughters and relatives, after the passing of their old father. ...

The Lightning Sword (1962)

Shinjiro is a rambler, a single sword carrying lone wolf with only his fighting skills to protect him. He doesn't know where his road leads, only that he must find his lost sister, and the ronin who stole her away. The ronin that Shinjiro has sworn to kill ...

The Fencing Master (1962)

The Fencing Master tells the story of a man trying to survive as the only world he knows is becoming increasingly irrelevant. Danpei Ichikawa lives for swordfighting – he was once a renowned kabuki swordfight choreographer, and as the Chairman of the New ...

The Demon of Sendai's Castle (1962)

Tsunamune Date, the young lord of Sendai Domain, was ordered by the shogunate to stand down after being spotted in a brothel. Shortly after, four advisors from his entourage were assassinated, calling into question the possessions of the Date family. ...

Ghost Story: Crying in the Night Lantern (1962)

One day, a funeral was held at one of the tenements in Asakusa. It was the only son of a wealthy merchant named Matasaburo, who had run away from home with a woman he was in love with and had been living here. But this funeral was actually a kyogen (a fa ...

Seven Miles to Nakayama (1962)

When a corrupt magistrate rapes Oshima, Masa (Raizō Ichikawa) avenges her by killing the officer, becoming thereby a fugitive, haunted and grief-stricken by the fact that Oshima committed suicide. Going underground in the gambling world, perpetually hidi ...

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. ...

Yume de aritai (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

The Actress and the Three Rascals (1962)

Oniisan to oneesan (1961)

A 1961 film directed by Yoshiyuki Kuroda. ...

Buddha (1961)

An Indian prince leaves his world of comfort and riches behind to wander and meditate for six years in search of spiritual enlightenment. Siddartha (Cojoin Hong) turns his back on the old religion when people are starving needlessly and holy rituals includ ...

Okoto and Sasuke (1961)

One of Kinugasa's last films--based on the story by Tanizaki Jun'ichirō. ...

Iro no Michi Oshiemasu: Yume San'ya (1961)

A unique story of a life of romance, divided into three episodes about the profound secrets of the path deeply rooted in the essence of human nature, depicted with a wry and stylish touch. ...

Otemoyan (1961)

Tsukinode no ketto (1960)

What Price Love? (1960)

Set in the middle of the Edo period (1603-1867), this tragic love story takes its cue from a celebrated historical case tried by magistrate Tadasuke Ooka, whose shrewd legal decisions became the stuff of legend. Okuma Shirokoya, the daughter of a lumber me ...

The Lord Pretends (1959)

Gambler and the Princess (1959)

Film directed by Kenji Misumi. ...

Bakeneko goyō da (1958)

Bakeneko Goyōda (1958)

A comic thriller directed by Tokuzo Tanaka, a first-time newcomer, based on a screenplay by Toshio Tamikado, who co-wrote "Nukiashisashi Ashi Shinobiashi." Photographed by Chikichiro Takeda of "Nurekami Kenpo." The music is by Han Takahashi of "Nukiashisas ...

The Snowy Heron (1958)

The story follows Oshino, a geisha who is trying to start a new life with a lover who is a painter. However, her past filled with debts and pimps catches up to her. ...

The Cat Knew (1958)

Akado Suzunosuke Destroys the Devil Mask Gang (1957)

The heroic warrior uses his magical powers and great sword skills to battle a criminal gang who all wear devil outfits. ...

Ghost-Cat of Yonaki Swamp (1957)

A remake of Kaidan Saga yashiki (1953). ...

Zenigata Heiji torimono hikae: madara hebi (1957)

Undercurrent (1956)

In Kyoto a young kimono maker with traditional ideas gets involved with a married professor. ...

Flowery Hood (1956)

Fighting Birds (1956)

Sisters of Gion (1956)

Zenigata Heiji Case Files: The Dead Beauty in the Bathhouse (1956)

Three Stripes in the Sun (1955)

A racist sergeant stationed in post-war Japan finds himself softening towards the children and falling for a local woman. ...

The Second Son (1955)

The Ghost Cat of Ouma Crossing (1954)

A kabuki actress is murdered. Her pet cat laps its mistress's blood and becomes a demon possessed by the vengeful murder victim. ...

Sansho the Bailiff (1954)

In 11th-century feudal Japan, following the exile of an idealistic governor, his wife and children are separated by slave traders; the children, Zushio and Anju, are sold into brutal servitude under the cruel bailiff Sansho. ...

Tanuki Battle of Awaodori Festival (1954)

A tanuki-themed musical. ...

Ghost-Cat of Arima Palace (1953)

Okoyo, the mistress of Lord Arima, fears that she is being replaced by a younger woman named Otaki. In a fit of jealousy, she kills the younger girl. ...

Ghost of Saga Mansion (1953)

A woman loses her son through an evil conspiracy and commits suicide. Shortly afterwards a ghost cat begins haunting the conspirators. This is Takako Irie's first bakeneko (ghost cat) movie; it started a Daiei cycle which was very popular at the time in J ...

A Geisha (1953)

Fleeing a distressing family situation, Eiko, a very young girl, becomes an apprentice to Miyoharu, a veteran geisha. Both, determined to preserve their professional integrity, must face the selfishness and ambition of several petty people. ...

An Heir's Place (1953)

This film stars Tanaka Kinuyo as the mother of the heir to the Hosho name, a famous lineage of Noh actors. The heir, Hosho Yagoro, is played by Hasegawa Kuzuo who went on to become familiar among Ichikawa Kon fans as Yukinojo in An Actor's Revenge, which w ...

Ugetsu (1953)

In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers in a nearby village, in defiance of a local sage's warning against seeking to profit from warfare. Genjuro's pursuit of both riches and the mysterious Lady ...

Reminiscence (1953)

Kazuo Miyagawa's prizewinning black-and-white cinematography draws out the moral shadings of Nobel laureate Yasunari Kawabata's 1952 novel Thousand Cranes, a quietly devastating story of a young man, orphaned during the war, who stumbles into a passionate ...

Journey to the West 2: The Great Rampage of Son Goku (1952)

Sequel to "Saiyuki" (1952) ...

New Journey of Yaji and Kita (1952)

Based on the comic by Machiko Hasegawa ...

Story of a Beloved Wife (1951)

Story of a Beloved Wife is an autobiographical work based on Shindo's first marriage. Jūkichi Uno stars as a struggling screenwriter, and Nobuko Otowa stars as the wife who supports him through his early struggles. ...

The Well-known Magistrate (1951)

Claws of Iron (1951)

During the war a man is bitten by a creature which looks like a cross between a bear and an ape in the jungle. Later he starts to transform to a monster like creature who kills with his claw like fingers. ...

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 ...

The Elephant Who Waited (1949)

The story of Kanesuke and Entaro who are master elephant trainers in charge of two elephants, Taro and Hanako at the Metropolitan Zoo. ...

A Fool's Love (1949)

Adaptation of Junichiro Tanizaki's novel whit the same name. It is perversely erotic relationship between a young salaryman and his teenage wife whom he 'adopted' at first as to 'train' her to be his idealistic modern woman. ...

The Invisible Man Appears (1949)

A scientist successfully creates an invisibility serum, only to be kidnapped by a gang of thugs who wish to use the formula to rob a priceless jewel. ...

Thirty-three footprints (1948)

Fourth film of the Bannai Tarao series starring Chiezo Kataoka ...