Etsuko Shihomi

During his travels, Tora-san comes across a traditional theater he used to visit, and discovers that one of his old friends has died. Tora-san and his family help the friend's daughter, who becomes romantically involved with an aspiring artist.

Chief Detective KIMURA Denbei, fondly referred to as Smoky Denbei, is a legendary figure at the Metropolitan Police Department. Transferred to Denbei's Criminal Investigation Division 1, Detective KUMADA Tomekichi arrives from the Toyama Prefectural Police. KUMADA is disconcerted by Denbei's position that murderers nowadays do not need a plausible motive, but gradually adapts to Denbei's unusual methods of investigation.

A young jazz musician's desire to advance in his career runs afoul of organized crime in this thriller from Haruki Kadokawa. After a saxophonist starts playing at a particular nightspot, a thug from the Yakuza adopts him as a special friend for no greater reason than he plays one of his favorite songs well. As the dangerous life of the gangster intertwines with that of the musician, it brings harm to the musician's girlfriend, who is raped. This changes the young saxophonist's attitude about his patron, but his Yakuza "friend" is still too embroiled in his own problems to worry about anything else.

The story of beautiful Christian nun, Kyoko who is the object of affection for two very different men - one the happy-go-lucky yakuza gangster, Haruhiko who is the next-in-line to takeover the ragtag "Tenryu Gumi" gang and the other bumbling police detective Kumashiro. The Tenryu Gumi is a collection of misfits and other troublemakers but are relatively peaceful due to their Christian beliefs. Their bitter rivals are the more traditional "Kuroiwa Gumi", a much more sadistic and violent group led by godfather Kuroiwa.

Four girls and their manager aiming for stardom!

Set in the 1930s in the international city of Shanghai, the film follows the extravagant life and times of a group of jazz musicians, living from one advance paycheck to the next, as the country teeters over the brink into the Second Sino-Japanese War.

Lewd, long-haired karate kid Kotaro Shindo spends his days causing amok at the prestigious Tsurugamine Academy, until the Disciplinary Committee decides enough is enough, and puts a bounty on his luscious locks. Meanwhile other sinister forces are working in the shadows to put Kotaro to use for their own ends.

La familia de Shizu-hime (Hiroko Yakushimaru) es asesinada, pero ella escapa y es encontrada por el vagabundo Shinbei (Hiroyuki Sanada), antes de ser rescatada de sus perseguidores por Dosetsu (Sonny Chiba). Este le cuenta la historia sobre la maldición que acarrea su familia y la manera para vencerla: encontrar a los ocho guerreros-perro para poder destruir a la malvada reina Tamazusa (Mari Natsuki), responsable de la muerte de su familia. Sin embargo, al conocer la identidad de Shizu-hime, Shinbei intentará cobrar la recompensa por su captura.

Kabamaru is a young boy raised and trained by his grandfather as a ninja. After the sudden death of his grandfather, he starts living with Mai, his grandfather’s mistress, who is a school director. He is asked to help out on struggles against other schools, as he is master of the ninja mystical arts. As time passes he will make lots of friends as well as enemies, and fall in love with Mai.

Ginshiro, threatened by poor repute and upcoming star Tachibana, forces his friend Yasu to marry Konatsu, Ginshiro's pregnant mistress; Yasu becomes a stuntman to make ends meet.

On his death bed the man who raised Joji reveals that he is not his real father and that Joji’s real parents died tragically in a plane crash. Shortly thereafter Joji goes to Japan is search of his sister and his twin brother Toru. Joji’s quickly finds his sister Chihiro who is now blind and lives with their uncle. Joji one evening accidently over hears his uncle who has ties to the criminal underworld discussing his various illegal operations. Joji ‘s eavesdropping is discovered by his uncle who offers him a chance to join the organization. Joji promptly turns his uncle’s offer down which immediately puts his life in danger.

9th-graders Kazuo and Kazumi take a tumble at a temple in a small seacoast town in Japan. Through supernatural intervention, their minds and bodies are switched, and the result is a touching and hilarious coming-of-age comedy as they attempt to survive the pressures of junior high school life.

The Moon Mask Rider is a tokusatsu movie produced by Purumie International/Herald Enterprises and distributed by Nippon Herald Pictures, was released theatrically on March 14, 1981. Considered Japan's answer to the American box-office fiasco, The Legend of the Lone Ranger (released the same year), this updated version of the Moonlight Mask legend bombed at the Japanese box-office. Daisuke Kuwahara (who, like Klinton Spilsbury , disappeared from doing films) plays George Owara (Moon Mask Rider's new alter-ego), and the rest of the cast made up of veteran action starlets: Sue Shihomi, Daijiro Harada and Takayuki Godai.

En la segunda mitad del siglo XVI había muchos jefes militares con hambre de poder, todos ellos a cual más sanguinario buscaban someter a su propia soberanía al país entero. Uno de los más crueles era Hideyashi. Ordena a su comandante enviar al poblado a Monachi para destruir su clan y el magnífico grupo de Guerreros Ninja, obteniendo así uno de los mejores tesoros del Gran Japón. Sólo un niño queda con vida de la gran matanza, sólo un niño que volverá diez años después, convirtiéndose en el terror de Hideyoshi.

Obayashi’s take on the famous Kosuke Kindaichi series, made popular partly thanks to the numerous movie-adaptions by Kon Ichikawa, the most known being The Inugami Family. Kosuke Kindaichi is the most famous detective in Japan. Kindaichi gets a new case to figure out who has beheaded a valuable statue and made off with its head.

Jillucia, un pacifico planeta a dos milones de años luz del sistema solar, ha sido convertido en inexpurgale fortaleza por terribles invasores, los Gavanas. Kaiba, el rey de Jillucia, apela a los dioses mediante las 8 nueces de Niobe, que elegiran a 8 guerreros que salvarán a su pueblo.

Tras la muerte del segundo shogun Tokugawa, se revela que fue envenenado por los servidores de su hijo Iemitsu con la esperanza de obtener el shogunato a pesar del tartamudeo y la marca de nacimiento que socavan su respeto. Iemitsu y su hermano Tadanaga se convierten en amargos rivales para el shogunato, y la tierra se divide en facciones, eventualmente estallando en guerras. El mentor de Iemitsu, su instructor de esgrima Yagyu, está obsesionado con asegurar a Iemitsu el shogunato y termina traicionando a todos, incluso a su propia familia, en pos de la meta.

Komori Tiaki is a budding tennis student, however one day in training her coach hits the ball into her eye accidentally. She is taken to hospital but it advised that she will never regain the sight in her eye. Her coach knows of a mysterious doctor 'Blackjack' who lives in a secluded house, who might be able to help. 'Blackjack' agrees to do the operation, but for a 'substantial reward'! Her sight is regained, but now she starts to see a mysterious man that is invisible to those around her....

Duke Togo (codename: Golgo 13) is a ruthless assassin who's accepted a tricky assignment from an American drug syndicate. His mission is to "rub out" Hong Kong's underworld kingpin. His main obstacle is the relentless Detective 'Smitty' Smith, determined to stop Togo no matter the cost. The result is an explosive adventure through the seamy, violent streets of Hong Kong.

This mid-1970s martial arts classic stars Sonny Chiba as Mu Yun Tek, a young man trained in the Thai fighting style since childhood to one day avenge his parents' death. When a fellow student kills their teacher, Mu Yun's thirst for vengeance grows. The brutal action never stops as Mu Yun teams up with an Interpol agent (Tadashi Yamashita) to find the culprit, who insists that their former master was a drug dealer who had to be destroyed.

A man working in a fish market is crazy about festivals.

Kiku Nakakawa, the only daughter of an old kimono shop owner in Kyoto, is enthusiastic about karate. To help her friend Michi avenge her brother, she sneaks into a movie studio in Kyoto where a drug dealing syndicate is based.

Sakata protects a little boy while coping with rival gangs.

Un agente secreto japonés (Sonny Chiba) vuelve a Japón una vez terminada la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Tras varios problemas con la justicia es detenido y encerrado en prisión. Una vez cumplida su condena, su único objetivo será la venganza.

A karate master played by Sonny Chiba is attacked and left crippled and blinded in one eye. He trains his daughter (Etsuko Shihomi) with the intention of her avenging not only himself but a murdered friend.

Esta película trata de cómo Morihei Ueshiba desarrolló el aikido aprendiendo diferentes artes marciales, y de algunas de las cosas que le fueron sucediendo a lo largo de su vida para llegar a crear este arte marcial.

When Koryu's childhood friend Shurei is abducted by gangsters, the desperate young woman recruits a female martial artist and a tough-as-nails stranger to join her for a dangerous rescue mission.

Sonny Chiba plays Kyokushin Karate founder Masutatsu Oyama, who unexpectedly arrives at a karate tournament in rags, but wins the tournament. After turning down the chance to fight at future tournaments he returns to his simple village life. He reluctantly returns to karate for a final showdown against the students of a rival school.

Un grupo terrorista coloca una bomba en un tren bala que recorre el trayecto Tokio-Hakata. El Hikari 109 explotará si el tren baja de 80 km/hora. Pero un operador del tren (Sonny Chiba) se encargará de intentar salvar a los pasajeros.

Shihomi Etsuko plays a race car driver who also lends out her services to the Japanese Secret Service. Although there really isn't much of a "chase" to be seen, Shihomi does pursue a cartel of drug runners and assorted Japanese yakuza types. While the story is pure 70's exploitation and gritty crime drama, the best reason to see it is for the Martial Arts Action of Etsuko Shihomi. The action is over-the-top and at times hilarious (i.e. Shihomi battling the lead criminal atop a moving gondola or Shihomi battling a whip-wielding Catholic Nun).

Maki is the leader of a female gang who fights for justice, but she ends up being framed and sent to a sadistic woman's prison. Will Maki be able to escape and take revenge?

When a priceless jewel owned by rich heiress Sabine is stolen, along with her daughter, Professional thief and hired killer Ryuichi Koga and his gang are hired to retrieve both. At a ransom exchange, the team save the girl but lose the money and the jewel. When Sabine decides to deal directly with the thieves and obtains the jewel on her own by paying the ransom, Koga, having been stiffed of his fee by Sabine, steals the jewel. Little does he know, it’s a fake. Now, Koga and the team must break into a high security bank to steal the real jewel.

Koryu heads to Yokohama in search of a woman named Birei, kidnapped by diamond smugglers who move their hot rocks by surgically implanting them into the nubile buttocks of Chinese prostitutes. Koryu's older sister, working as a jewelry designer, is secretly, if unhappily, involved with the gangsters.

Tercera y última parte de la saga The Street Fighter, con Sonny Chiba retomando el papel de Takuma “Ferry” Tsurugi. Esta vez infiltrándose en el clan criminal de Owada, para recuperar dos cintas que contienen la fórmula para fabricar heroína. Pero es traicionado por quien lo contrató y decide hacerse con las cintas de nuevo. Un grupo de peligrosos asesinos serán contratados para darle caza y arrebatarle las codiciadas cintas.

Li Mansei is a martial-arts champion turned undercover agent. When he is captured by a drug lord, his sister Li Koryu turns to his former martial-arts school, including the powerful Sonny Kawasaka, for help in the inevitable battle royale.

Sonny Chiba es Takuma Tsurugi, un mercenario experto en artes marciales que es contratado por un grupo de yakuzas para secuestrar a la hija de un millonario fallecido, la cual ha heredado toda la fortuna de su padre. Pero cuando los yakuzas se niegan a pagarle lo prometido. Takuma decidirá proteger a la niña y enfrentarse a los temibles yakuza.

Kiba is back again, but this time he has fallen from grace and sent to prison for all the violent acts he has committed. Once he's out, he begins working as a bodyguard in a club that is crawling with gangsters.

Karate master and anti-drug vigilante Chiba returns to his home in Japan, where he holds a press conference announcing his intention to wipe out the nation's drug industry. He also offers his services as a bodyguard to anyone who is willing to come forward and provide information about the drug lords' activities. He is soon approached by a mysterious woman claiming to have important information and asking for Chiba's protection. She seems to be legitimate, but is she really what she appears to be?