Kiyoshi Saeki

Kiyoshi Saeki

Nacimiento : 1914-09-19, Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, Japan

Muerte : 2002-07-16

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Kiyoshi Saeki

Películas

Contemporary Tales of Chivalry: The Traitor Shall Die
Director
The ninth and final film in the Contemporary Tales of Chivalry series.
Shōwa Gokudōshi
Director
Contemporary Tales of Chivalry: Forbidden Love
Director
A story of lone wolf struggling with human compassion and duty.
A Modern Yakuza: Broken Code
Director
A young yakuza soldier is torn between staying in his current life or leaving his family when his boss refuses to follow their ancient code of ethics.
Code Between Brothers: All New
Director
When the boss of the Nakano Family decides to retire and makes a loyal follower the new boss instead of his own son, it causes strife in the family. Sides are taken and lines are drawn. Meanwhile, a rival family with a land dispute with the Nakano starts pulling strings behind the scenes...
New Prison Walls of Abashiri: The Vagrant Comes to a Port Town
Director
Katsuji takes revenge on evil Tamaru who forcefully took control of the fishery business run by Katsuji’s friend.
A Gambler's Certain Death
Director
Part 7 in the Gambling Den series. This time Koji Tsuruta is a gambler who feels sympathetic towards a woman whose naive husband is driven to a debt trap by a rotten gambling den owner (Tatsuo Endo) and his dishonest card dealer (Isamu Nagato). The plot is standard stuff and features too much talk, but there's also a decent balance between melodrama and lyricism in the form and storytelling. Tsuruta was a perfect fit for these kind of roles, with the stoic and emotional sides nicely mixed in his screen persona.
Brothers Serving Time
Director
While imprisoned, Tatsu encounters Danshi, a man who is a big honcho in the prison pecking order. After initial conflict they become sworn brothers. Tatsu and the sworn brothers he acquires weren’t really gangsters before their prison time, just ruffians. Prison, however, introduces them to plenty of gangland characters and three years later, they’re out of prison and enmeshed in the yakuza world.
Henchmen
Director
The three henchmen join forces to challenge the brutal gang that is trying to control the city of Izu in Shizuoka during the early Showa period. Representatives of three different yakuza gangs - Tatsuo Umemiya, Tomisaburo Wakayama and Koji Tsuruta celebrate male friendship and male chivalry in action.
Enlisted Yakuza
Director
It is the third film in the Gokudo series. In this episode, set in 1937, the main character of the series gang leader Shimamura is drafted into the military and fight in China.
Wicked Priest
Screenplay
El pintoresco monje budista Shinkai (Tomisaburo Wakayama) es un religioso poco habitual: Bebedor, mujeriego, jugador empedernido… Y además avezado artista marcial. En los primeros años de la era Meiji (alrededor de 1870), cuando el portar públicamente espadas se ha prohibido por las nuevas autoridades, Shinkai lleva su cortante hoja envainada en una especie de bastón. Además de su destreza con arma blanca, el monje es un sobresaliente luchador cuerpo a cuerpo.
Wicked Priest
Director
El pintoresco monje budista Shinkai (Tomisaburo Wakayama) es un religioso poco habitual: Bebedor, mujeriego, jugador empedernido… Y además avezado artista marcial. En los primeros años de la era Meiji (alrededor de 1870), cuando el portar públicamente espadas se ha prohibido por las nuevas autoridades, Shinkai lleva su cortante hoja envainada en una especie de bastón. Además de su destreza con arma blanca, el monje es un sobresaliente luchador cuerpo a cuerpo.
Wild Spirit
Director
It has been 5 years since Eijiro Kikukawa of the Asakusa Kaminarimon family killed the head of the Suzaki family. Finally he gets out of prison and comes to the city of Odahama, where he had a mistress, Okei, whom he could not forget. He accidentally helped a man named Hanji from the Kurokane family and was received by the family as a guest. And soon Eijiro is involved in a showdown between the yakuza families.
Gambler's World 2
Director
Thriller about a gangster and an outlaw who become friends despite their different outlooks.
Gambler's World
Director
Kingdom of Samurai
Director
Contemporary Tales of Chivalry: The Lone Wolf
Director
Yakuza families clash over a lucrative fishery business.
Nothing But Bones
Screenplay
Japanese drama.
Greatest Boss of the Showa Era
Director
Somewhat unique as it appears to be one of the very rare appearances of master thespian Itô in a yakuza role.
Contemporary Tales of Chivalry 2
Director
Hidejiro is a wandering yakuza with a ‘karashi botan’ (Chinese lion and peony) tattoo. Owing a favor to the Soda Family, he kills the boss of the rival Sakaki Family. When the Soda attacks the Sakaki and double-crosses him, with sword in hand, Hidejiro seeks brutal retribution.
Brutal Tales of Chivalry
Director
After World War II, their town was a pile of rubble. Gennosuke, the second-generation boss of the Kamizu Group was upholding yakuza chivalry by keeping black-market and illegal items out of their open-air market. Taking advantage of the mess, Iwasa and his gang take hold of goods from the US military, black-market and controlled items in order to become the most powerful group in the Enko area. Iwasa has Gennosuke assassinated but before he dies, he names Shinji Terajima as his successor and makes him swear to carry on the family business and not seek revenge or use violence. Shinji tries to make his family’s marketplace a success, but with constant interruption and attacks from Iwasa’s gang, he can no longer keep his word to his former boss.
Detective
Director
The first film with Tetsuro Tamba as a detective. An exciting drama about the pursuit of a criminal, which takes place in Yokohama. Tamba enthusiastically plays a police inspector who pursues a criminal who kidnapped his sister.
Judo Hall Demon
Director
Sequel to the movie Judo Ichidai (Judo Life) with Sonny Chiba
A Life of Intimidation
Director
Japanese action film.
Asakusa no kyôkaku
Director
Sonny Chiba is a young gambler on the run. He pretends to be an innocent student, and is taken in by an honorable Yakuza in Tokyo's Asakusa district.
Judo Life
Director
Sonny Chiba in an adaption from Ryutaro Kondo work
Hibari the Traveling Performer
Director
Kimie, a traveling guitarist, performs at various inns at help out her sickly mother. One night while out with her mother, Otoshi, Kimie unexpectedly sees her father, who had abandoned the family 20 years ago. Her hopes for a happy reunion are quickly dashed as her father, having married into a wealthy family, wants nothing to do with her. Will Kimie be able to regain her father’s love?
Lakeside Figure
Director
A story of Minako who struggles finding love and peace in life. When Minako’s hope for ultimate happiness, marriage to her beloved fiancé, comes to a sudden halt, Minako finds herself in search of new love which in turn leads her into a complicated love triangle.
The Sand City in Manchuria
Director
When the plague threatens a small town in Manchuria, a young doctor finds himself struggling to save the lives of his townspeople.
Tokyo Detective Girl
Director
Woman private eye Emiko goes undercover to reveal the truth of a murder case.
The Tokyo Dame
Director
A young woman tries to keep her family together after her father disowns her sister.
Sister with Sister
Director
Yoshiko finds new life and love interests when she takes a new job as an office worker.
A Martial Crowd
Director
Dos princesas gemelas son separadas al nacer pues existe la creencia de que los gemelos traen mala suerte a la familia. Son criadas por separado. Yukihime, la gemela que fue enviada a Edo para ser criada por una familia yakuza regresa después de muchos años.
Romance Freestyle
Director
The love between young college students Toki and the handsome Takaga is tested when Takaya's parents, who despise Toki's family's geisha house business, intervenes in their relationship.
No Advice Taken
Director
A comical love story between two college students — Hitomi, a strong-willed girl, and Shogo, a handsome, earnest and poverty stricken man.
Sasaki Kojiro, Part 2
Director
The conclusion of the story of famed swordsman, Sasaki Kojiro. After surviving a series of daring adventures, Kojiro seems to have finally discovered the ultimate happiness in life when he is reunited with Tone, the love of his life. However, his days of happiness are overshadowed by an upcoming duel with his fateful enemy Miyamoto Musashi.
Sasaki Kojiro
Director
Ronin Sasaki Kojiro pursues his ultimate goal of becoming a master swordsman. Along the way he encounters another great swordsman, Miyamoto Musashi.
Cantankerous Edo
Director
It's fighting fires and swordsmen with a touch of music in this free-for-all of action and excitement combining the talents of Japan's most popular couple... Misora Hibari and Okawa Hashizo. Along with the great Otomo Rytaro as Tatsugoro the fire chief, they keep Edo safe as part of the famed Megumi Fire Squad.
The Black Hooded Man
Director
A mysterious black hooded man intervenes when an anti-government group who plots to steal the precious blue diamond called “Maguna no Hitomi.”
A Gang of Five
Director
A group of five law enforcers search Edo for a missing sword.
Hana to ryû - Dai-ni-bu: Aijô ruten
Director
Dai-ni-bu: Aijô ruten: Kiyoshi Saeki directed movie
Hana to ryû - Dai-ichi-bu: Dôkai-wan no rantô
Director
Dai-ichi-bu: Dôkai-wan no rantô - Kiyoshi Saeki directed movie.
恐妻時代
Director
Forty-Eight Man
Director
Jidai-geki by Kiyoshi Saeki
お洒落狂女
Screenplay
お洒落狂女
Director
Mother in the Storm
Director
Koi no rantan
Script
"My mother is Japanese, a drifting diva of Tokyo" After the death of her father Reika goes to Japan to visit her mother, but can't find her, so she starts performing at a cabaret in Yokohama. Her mother, already settled, found about Reika's whereabouts, but won't acknowledge her daughter for fear of loosing her current status.
Koi no rantan
Director
"My mother is Japanese, a drifting diva of Tokyo" After the death of her father Reika goes to Japan to visit her mother, but can't find her, so she starts performing at a cabaret in Yokohama. Her mother, already settled, found about Reika's whereabouts, but won't acknowledge her daughter for fear of loosing her current status.
赤道祭
Director
Meeting of the Ghost of Apres-Guerre
Director
In a small town, according to the homecoming of Professor Ishinaka, the youth culture group was overwhelmed to make a presentation for the summer festival, but because of lack of funds, she works part-time at the spectacle of a tour, a haunted house Especially. The ghost was a struggle amongst the people, it was a great success in filling the crowd, but in the circus hut next to it, Kenji who was supposed to have disappeared was pitiful.
新遊侠伝 遊侠往来
Director
新遊侠伝
Director
Yasubei Nakayama
Screenplay
Jidai-geki about the life of Yasubei Nakayama, a famous ronin who did participate in the revenge against Lord Kira Yoshinaka as detailed in Japan's famous epic Chushingura
Yasubei Nakayama
Director
Jidai-geki about the life of Yasubei Nakayama, a famous ronin who did participate in the revenge against Lord Kira Yoshinaka as detailed in Japan's famous epic Chushingura
Tenpo Suikoden - Otone's Night Fog
Writer
Jidai-geki by Kiyoshi Saeki
Tenpo Suikoden - Otone's Night Fog
Director
Jidai-geki by Kiyoshi Saeki
When We Came Back
Director
Melodrama by Kiyoshi Saeki
Duel in the Sun
Director
A film by Kiyoshi Saeki
Zenigata Heiji Detective Story: Heiji Covers All of Edo
Director
Police detective Heiji is assigned to catch the masked Maboroshi gang of robbers who have terrorized all of Edo leaving few clues as to who their leader is.
Zenigata Heiji Detective Story: Heiji Covers All of Edo
Screenplay
Police detective Heiji is assigned to catch the masked Maboroshi gang of robbers who have terrorized all of Edo leaving few clues as to who their leader is.
The Age of Beginnings
Director
A newly hired daily newspaper writer covering the society beat receives an assignment to cover Tokyo at night by walking and observing it. He gets into the right frame of mind by dressing the part as a vagrant with not a penny to his name. He gets into trouble ending up at the police station slammer overnight. He has no material to write about and, with his assignment unfulfilled, faces a cross editor.
Yoki na onna
Producer
1946 Toho film directed by Kiyoshi Saeki
Yoki na onna
Director
1946 Toho film directed by Kiyoshi Saeki
Three Women of the North
Director
The story of an airport and its air traffic control crew in a remote and northern Japanese town. Three of the air traffic controllers are female with one of them working with her dead fiancé's sister. The engaged man had gone to war and never returned.
Akanishi Kakita
Assistant Director
A samurai is ordered by his lord to go to Edo and investigate the truth behind the rumor of a rebellion against him.