Yūzō Hayakawa

The Night the Angel Turned Away (1999)

Attack! Yan Mama Gang (1995)

Ayako, who was the leader of the ladies gang until five years ago, washed her hands of gang life at the time of her husband's death. Now, she and her daughter-in-law are on a trip. With gangsters targeting children in the port town, things quickly become d ...

Carlos (1991)

V-cinema classic about a wanted Brazilian Japanese gangster who flees to Tokyo and fights yakuza. ...

There Goes Benio, the Smart Girl (1987)

Benio, a peppy tomboy, is surprised to learn that she has been secretly betrothed by her grandfather to a young officer named Shinobu Ijuin. Because of his family's noble status, Benio must first undergo rigorous training to learn how to be a proper bride ...

No More God, No More Love (1985)

Released after seven years in prison, an inveterate thug goes from strength to ruthless strength as he makes his way through a succession of dubious jobs, illegal schemes, and brutal romances. ...

Battle Anthem (1983)

The story of Japan's victory in the battle of Tsushima Strait. ...

Cold Current (1983)

Set against the backdrop of a bitter power struggle between the faction of the chairman of the board and the faction of the vice-chairman of the board of a large bank, this business mystery explores the lust, suffering and vindictiveness of one of the bran ...

Edo Porn (1981)

The world-famous woodblock artist Hokusai (1760-1849), a widower in need of a steady income, lives with his daughter Oei in the house of his friend Bakin. ...

House of Evil Spirits (1980)

A suspense work starring Junko Natsu. One night, Saiko Ogata, a popular female DJ on a late-night radio music program, discovers a strange letter among a pile of postcards. It was a letter written in the style of a 5 or 6-year-old child, beginning with, ...

Love in the Mud (1977)

This is a story of love between a society girl and a yakuza boy. Mami lives an ordinary life in Tokyo, being with her friends and studying. Her biggest interest is ladies hats. She is rather well off, as her father is the ambassador of Japan in Spain. On ...

Wicked Nun (1971)

Rikugun rakugo-hei (1971)

Wakaki hi no kōdōkan (1971)

Mona Lisa Okyo (1971)

The film is based on the graphic novel of the same name by Teruo Tanashita, Mari Atsumi plays a pickpocket trying to get hold of a valuable but elusive diamond brooch called "Star". ...

Women's Prison for Torture (1971)

Shocking scenes are revealed in the Nagasaki Women's prison. ...

Otoko Ippiki Gaki Daisho (1971)

The Genius and Delinquent (1971)

A talented man and a dull-witted one plan a big crime. ...

The Woman Gambler's Iron Rule (1971)

The woman gambler Ginko risks her life for her brother-in-law. ...

The High School Deviates (1970)

The Killer's Killer (1970)

Takeshi Ijuin leaves for Chicago to be a cameraman, and a few years later returns to Japan. But he only learned the technique of homicide in Chicago. When he visits the graveyard with his father to pray at his mother's tomb, his father is shot by someone. ...

An Ode to Yakuza (1970)

Tatematsu Minoru, a yakuza belonging to the Ishikawa group that runs the Shinjuku area, has a beautiful sister named Akane. He dreams of sending her to college and turning her into a perfect young lady. He's extremely fond of Akane. His fondness for her go ...

Hurry on a Sail to Dream (1970)

Yuki cares for a sick old man Katakura who kept her mother as his mistress. Now she is the object of his ugly desires. When she falls in love with a young man Jun her long oppressed mind leads her to commit a murder with Jun for Katakura's enormous fortune ...

Kigeki: Ohi Kaenasutte! (1970)

Play It Cool (1970)

This Japanese melodrama chronicles the exploits of a geisha's beautiful daughter. The daughter is the geisha's pride and she spares nothing to insure that she has a bright future. But the hard-working young woman's dreams of becoming a dressmaker are shatt ...

Naked Ambition (1970)

Wicked woman Ogin is a concubine of a powerful feudal lord Tayu. At first Ogin gains power by poisoning lawful wife of Tayu. To gain more power Ogin let her lover Isogai Iori, kill whoever interrupts her. Film it is based on Jun'ichirō Tanizaki's novel "K ...

Born Fighter (1970)

Story about a big boss who built the foundation of an industrial city. ...

Woman Gambling Expert: Stakes of a Game of Chance (1970)

16th in the 17 film Daiei "Woman Gambler" series ...

The Woman Gambler's Trump Card (1969)

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

The Falcon Fighters (1969)

In the prewar days leading up to the Second Sino-Japanese War of 1937, head flight instructor Lt. Katō Tateo of the Imperial Japanese Army-Air Corps trains new volunteers from the Army's Infantry to become Japan's next generation of fighter pilots at the ...

Vixen (1969)

Michi's first encounter with Nobuyuki Ishida, secretary to the chairman of a private school, takes place in the drawing room, when she attempts to swindle him out of two million yen for alleged rape by his son. Akie, Ishida's wife and the chairman's daught ...

Prison Break (1969)

Set up to be the patsy by a rival gang, Furuta Makoto attacks the yakuza boss he thinks is responsible for his father's murder. He then learns it was all a plot to take over his father's turf and he seeks vengeance against the puppet master behind the enti ...

The Sea Anemone (1969)

The story of a sexy girl with a passion for attracting men and counting the money she entices from them with her body. ...

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. ...

The Woman Gambler's Tenth Game (1969)

13th in the 17 film Daiei "Woman Gambler" series ...

Record of an Apprentice Nurse: Red Uniform (1969)

Record of a Girls' High School Doctor: Fainting (1969)

The Woman Gambler's Supplication (1968)

Eleventh film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin. ...

The Diary of a Sex Counsellor 2 (1968)

Woman Gambler and the Nun (1968)

Eighth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin. ...

Champion Woman Gambler (1968)

Ninth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin. ...

Woman Gambler Is Coming (1968)

Sixth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin. ...

The Pit of Death (1968)

Kuramoto, who works for a large trading company, is a skilled employee who is well-liked by the company president. He is engaged to an employee named Nishino Etsuko, but he used her for his own career advancement and kills her so that he can marry the comp ...

The Sex Check (1968)

Ken Ogata plays Shiro Miyagi, a sprinter with Olympic aspirations whose dreams were shattered by WWII. A broken man, he leads the dissolute life of a gigolo until a chance meeting with a fiery young athlete named Hiroko (Michiyo Yasuda). Realizing that she ...

The Great Villains (1968)

Psychological noir drama involving the tangled web of a disgraced yakuza, an innocent school girl, a blackmailed singer, and a corrupt lawyer. ...

The Diary of a Sex Counsellor (1968)

Territory of the Night (1967)

Thoroughbred Women Gamblers (1967)

Fourth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin. ...

Invitation to Jail (1967)

Zatoichi the Outlaw (1967)

When a local gambling house kidnaps some peasants because they failed to pay their debts, a rival gambling house pays their debts and sets them free. ...

Love for an Idiot (1967)

A middle-aged factory engineer trains, marries, and ultimately loses a teenage bride after she enslaves him to her whims. ...

The Woman Gambler (1967)

Second film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin. In a fierce gambling den where rough men clash like sparks, two female gamblers vie for the same man in a high-stakes, be ...

Bad Reputation: The Notorious Man of Legend (1967)

Two Wives (1967)

After a random encounter at a bar, two couples collide. Two men, two women, embroiled in a love-and-hate drama that threatens to engulf them. The sexual anxiety between the interwoven couples tautens right up to the nearly unbearable tension of the climax. ...

War of the Monsters (1967)

An expedition goes out to a remote island to find a priceless opal. This opal happens to be the egg of the powerful Barugon, a huge lizard-like monster that can freeze foes with its long tongue or disintegrate them with its devastating rainbow ray. When Ga ...

Five Star Private (1967)

Assignment Dragon No. 3 (1967)

In late 1940 the Japanese were anxious to conclude peace in China and to that end sent Colonel Hidaka to inaugurate negotiations. He was mysteriously assassinated, however, when his car was blown up. The General Staff Headquarters in Japan, sends Lieutenan ...

The Little Runaway (1966)

During a Soviet circus tour in Japan, a small street musician, Ken, meets a clown, Yuri Nikulin. Upon learning that his sick father is being treated in the Soviet Union, Ken sets off in search of him. The friendship of the great clown and the boy continues ...

The Great White Tower (1966)

The story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors at Naniwa University Hospital in Osaka. The brilliant and ambitious surgeon Goro Zaizen stops at nothing to rise to a position of eminence and authority, while ...

The School of Spies (1966)

Nakano Institution is the so-called 'Spy School' where many young men are trained to be excellent spies. They erase their names, families, even lovers to bury themselves in training. Jiro, one of the cadets, successfully seize the secret code of English ar ...

Gamera vs. Barugon (1966)

Gamera escapes from his rocket enclosure and makes his way back to Earth as a giant opal from New Guinea is brought back to Japan. The opal is discovered to have been an egg that births a new monster called Barugon. The creature attacks the city of Osaka b ...

A Man Worth the Money (1966)

Tokyo Ninja Force (1966)

The Informer (1965)

To pay off his enormous debt, Segawa becomes a spy for the president of a small trading company. ...

While Yet a Wife (1965)

A wife is diagnosed with an incurable disease at a young age. Her husband loves her, supports her, and tries to stay with her. However, the wife is tormented by the fact that she is ruining her husband's future, and decides to divorce him as the only thing ...

Zero-Fighters (1965)

Strange Triangle (1965)

A young man is determined to have as many affairs as possible but not to get married. One of his conquests is of a different mind however. For she is pregnant and so he agrees to live with her. But he misses very much the other younger girl whom he saw a l ...

Seisaku's Wife (1965)

On the eve of the Russo-Japanese war at the beginning of the 20th century, small-town girl Okane has married an old wealthy man to escape a life of poverty. ...

Hoodlum Soldier (1965)

A young intellectual conscientious objector is forced to serve with the Japanese army in Manchuria. He joins with a dim-witted former gangster in an effort to desert by stealing a train. ...

Back Stairways (1965)

A young man named Kijima who works as a pianist in a small bar is surprised when one of the customers asks if he won't pretend to be the fiance of his sister. He is even more surprised when he is offered a million yen to play this apparently harmless role. ...

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 ...

High School Juniors (Part II) (1964)

A story full of youthful vigor and spirit as high school students try to work out their problems, realize the awakening of love and growing maturity and find fun and happiness in helping others. ...

Green Fruit (1964)

Two sisters live with their family. The elder is reserved; the younger lively. ...

Manji (1964)

The four principals in a love affair collide when jealousy, blackmail and suicide enter the picture. ...

The Frolic of the Beasts (1964)

The wife Yuko Kusumon operating a pottery store was a chastal wife without complaints even though her husband is cheated with her heart. Koji Umeya, who was working part-time at a shop, was able to see the unparallel rag, and brought her to the cheerful si ...

Suruga Yūkyōden: Gambling Hall Robbery (1964)

Love and Greed (1964)

Namiko is married, but has an infatuation with Ishizuka who runs a nightclub. The businessman is also planning on wrecking the company of Namiko's husband. As personal lives and professional careers intertwine and cross one another including a love triangl ...

Black Speeding (1964)

Takuya Tsuda is a cop who loves motorcycles. One day a speeding motorcycle seriously injures a child and his investigations lead Takuya to Akio Yazawa, the boss of the Sakamoto Motorcycle Club. ...

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. ...

Hot Spring Policeman (1963)

The Black Trademark (1963)

Ide of the Kokusai Rayon Company visits a supermarket and finds cheap shirts being passed off as his company's products. But a closer look reveals that the last letter of "Kokusai" has been changed to "n" and reads "Kokusan." The buyers, however, are all u ...

She Came For Love (1963)

Toshiko is the madam of a bar in Osaka who tries to keep her private life private and claims not to have a lover. However, she is in fact having a secret affair. ...

Sentimental Mobsters (1963)

A young man who followed his father's wishes and became a travel actor causes a big commotion with his fellow members of the Gurentai group during their travel destination! Innocent to cute girls and reckless to bad guys! Exciting entertainment! ...

Typhoon Reporter (1963)

Set around Ginza's neon billboard boom, the movie is a drama of romance, corporate intrigue and tragic crime. A reporter (Ken Utsui) investigates a homicide in Tokyo's bustling construction scene, meanwhile a super typhoon is brewing in the Pacific, and Gi ...

When Women Lie (1963)

Three stories about the relationship between men and women: "Playgirl" (Masumura/Shirasaka), "Company No. 2" (Yoshimura/Kasahara), and "San Nyotai" (Kinugasa/Shindô). ...

Girls Born in August (1963)

Ninja in a Business Suit (1963)

An industry research director, Isomura, is killed in a suspected hit-and-run, but his employee, Hinuma, believes it was murder, not an accident. ...

Black Report (1963)

After a businessman is murdered, an investigation identifies a suspect who is then put on trial for that crime. ...

Order of Yakuza (1962)

Order of Yakuza ...

A Woman's Life (1962)

Based on Kaoru Morimoto oft performed 1945 play, a starring vehicle for famed actress Machiko Kyo as Kei an abused orphaned girl that eventually finds sanctuary with a wealthy family that trades goods with China and becomes a successful businesswoman. Ma ...

Ashita au hito (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

Otoko to onna no sei no naka (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

Black Test Car (1962)

Two car manufacturers spy on each other to try to find out details and prices of a new sports car each is about to launch. ...

The Salaryman's Carefree Life: What a Relaxed Job This Is! (1962)

The salaryman is the object of admiration in the world. Because there is no more carefree job than this, this cheerful song comedy is set to the hit melody of the Hajime Hana and the Crazy Cats. ...

Closing Time (1962)

Stolen Pleasure (1962)

High-end cabaret hostess Masuko discovers her long-term lover is actually married. Determined to secure her future, she aggressively manipulates him into divorcing his wife, only for their new marriage to be destabilized by the arrival of her young niece. ...

Yume de aritai (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

Their Legacy (1962)

Heitaro, who had served his firm loyally for 30 years, reaches the retirement age. He has four unmarried daughters and decides to split his retirement allowance he has received from his firm into 500,000 yen for each daughter as a wedding dowry. He conside ...

Wakai yatsura no kaidan (1961)

1961 Japanese movie ...

Okoto and Sasuke (1961)

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

A Design for Dying (1961)

Shikiko Oba is nimble with her fingers and teaches dressmaking and designing. Among her pupils are Rinko, Katsumi and Tomie. Ginshiro, who is as shrewd as the shrewdest of the older generation of dyed-in-the-wool Osaka businessmen, steps into picture and ...

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. ...

Marriageable Age (1961)

The three Matsunami sisters navigate adulthood and the complex social pressures of finding a husband while living under their traditional father's roof. As they balance their personal desires against the family's obsession with status, their search for "ma ...

The Beloved Image (1960)

A girl marries her elderly employer but in reality is in love with his son. ...

Dare yori mo kimi o aisu (1960)

Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Dare yori mo kimi wo aisu" by Kazuko Matsuo. ...

Kirai Kirai Kirai (1960)

A Woman's Testament (1960)

The first story concerns an attractive young woman who works in a Tokyo nightclub. Her plan for a solid financial future has a double whammy. In the second story, a beautiful young woman is employed by an unscrupulous real estate agent to convince male cli ...

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. ...

Ripe and Marriageable (1959)

1959 youth comedy. ...

A Storm Zone (1959)

Thirst (1958)

Love River (1958)

Three O'clock in the Morning in a Big City (1958)

To avenge the death of his brother, a student shooting champion infiltrates the criminal world. An entertaining action drama and an interesting love story. ...

The Betrothed (1957)

Adaptation of the Yukio Mishima novel. ...

Night Butterflies (1957)

A traditional bar mistress in Kyoto clashes with her Tokyo rival. ...

Warning from Space (1956)

Large star-shaped aliens travel to earth in hopes of warning them about an oncoming catastrophe. To prevent panic about their appearance, one alien takes the form of a popular singer. ...

The Romance of Yushima (1955)

Hayase, a schoolteacher, assists Sakai in editing a German-Japanese dictionary. Hayase owes much to Sakai, as Sakai raised him for 13 years after Hayase lost his parents in a war. Hayase has been secretly married to Otsuta, a former geisha, and has been un ...

The Phantom Horse (1955)

Following the tragic death of his father, a young boy's family trains his horse to compete in the local derby. ...

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 ...

The Golden Demon (1954)

Tokyo, 1890. Through avarice, a series of misunderstandings, and failures of courage, the engagement of Kan-ichi (a student) and Miya (the daughter of Kan-ichi's debtor) is canceled to enable Miya to marry Tomiyama, a wealthy banker's son. In bitter despai ...

Kurohyō (1953)