A documentary on Teruo Ishii, the Japanese "King of Cult"
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A blind masseur kidnaps young women and kills them and then make sculptures of them, while a mysterious dwarf spreading severed body parts around. Detective Akechi Kogorô investigating crimes.
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From the king of the Japanese cult movie, Teruo Ishii! A controversial film in which actual cases that rocked modern-day Japan—including the sarin gas attack by the Aum Shinrikyo Cult—are dramatized with gruesome detail as their perpetrators stand trial in Hell. An angst-ridden girl, Rika, is carried off to Hell by an old woman she meets in a neighborhood park. There she gets a first-hand look at the excruciating agony of those found guilty—by Lucifer himself—of committing heinous crimes during their time on Earth.
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From the king of the Japanese cult movie, Teruo Ishii! A controversial film in which actual cases that rocked modern-day Japan—including the sarin gas attack by the Aum Shinrikyo Cult—are dramatized with gruesome detail as their perpetrators stand trial in Hell. An angst-ridden girl, Rika, is carried off to Hell by an old woman she meets in a neighborhood park. There she gets a first-hand look at the excruciating agony of those found guilty—by Lucifer himself—of committing heinous crimes during their time on Earth.
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From the king of the Japanese cult movie, Teruo Ishii! A controversial film in which actual cases that rocked modern-day Japan—including the sarin gas attack by the Aum Shinrikyo Cult—are dramatized with gruesome detail as their perpetrators stand trial in Hell. An angst-ridden girl, Rika, is carried off to Hell by an old woman she meets in a neighborhood park. There she gets a first-hand look at the excruciating agony of those found guilty—by Lucifer himself—of committing heinous crimes during their time on Earth.
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It has been two years since unsuccessful cartoonist Tsube started to live with Kuniko casually in a small apartment.
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It has been two years since unsuccessful cartoonist Tsube started to live with Kuniko casually in a small apartment.
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It has been two years since unsuccessful cartoonist Tsube started to live with Kuniko casually in a small apartment.
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An anthology film based on the works of manga artist Yoshiharu Tsuge. The main character in all four segments is a fledgling cartoonist named Tsube . In the first segment, Tsube encounters a dotty old man named Ri after renting a tumble-down cottage in the country. The following day, Ri, his equally weird wife, and his two squalid children move into his house. Soon the wife is stealing the cucumbers in his garden while the two kids devour all the food in the house.
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An anthology film based on the works of manga artist Yoshiharu Tsuge. The main character in all four segments is a fledgling cartoonist named Tsube . In the first segment, Tsube encounters a dotty old man named Ri after renting a tumble-down cottage in the country. The following day, Ri, his equally weird wife, and his two squalid children move into his house. Soon the wife is stealing the cucumbers in his garden while the two kids devour all the food in the house.
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A woman is being attacked by the yakuza of the Mitsuyoshi group ... A man with a pistol appears dashingly and shoots the yakuza without question now the yakuza want him dead
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A woman is being attacked by the yakuza of the Mitsuyoshi group ... A man with a pistol appears dashingly and shoots the yakuza without question now the yakuza want him dead
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The Centaurs are a racing team of 93 bikers from the port city of Yokohama who are named after the legendary Greek horse/men. Arthur and Ken fall out over their love for the same lady deciding to settle their competition with a race.
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The third movie in the "Boso" series.
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The third movie in the "Boso" series.
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Teruo Ishii's West Side Story, done as a bloody, violent, sexploitative biker gang film. It's the Red Chilis versus the Black Cats, and the chick who just may heal the divide.
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Teruo Ishii's West Side Story, done as a bloody, violent, sexploitative biker gang film. It's the Red Chilis versus the Black Cats, and the chick who just may heal the divide.
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In this retelling of an infamous unsolved heist, a couple tries to outlast the statute of limitations after successfully stealing 300 million yen.
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In this retelling of an infamous unsolved heist, a couple tries to outlast the statute of limitations after successfully stealing 300 million yen.
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Wild-hearted mechanic boy Iwaki falls in love with the innocent but gang tied Michiko.
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Wild-hearted mechanic boy Iwaki falls in love with the innocent but gang tied Michiko.
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A group of prisoners attempts to break the Abashiri prison. This film can be considered a sequel to the Abashiri Bangaichi series, written and directed by Ishii Teruo. The friendship between two men on death row, a fleeting love affair with a traveling dancer and a deadly battle with the real culprit who has hunted him down filmed over a long period of time on location in Hokkaido.
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A group of prisoners attempts to break the Abashiri prison. This film can be considered a sequel to the Abashiri Bangaichi series, written and directed by Ishii Teruo. The friendship between two men on death row, a fleeting love affair with a traveling dancer and a deadly battle with the real culprit who has hunted him down filmed over a long period of time on location in Hokkaido.
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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.
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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.
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Three street toughs are hired to take down a Tokyo drug dealer.
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Three street toughs are hired to take down a Tokyo drug dealer.
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Movie based on a book by Kakou Senda about the use of women as sexual slaves by the Japanese Army during WW2.
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When a rebellious roughneck enlists in the Navy and goes on a rampage against his superiors, he is sent to the Yokosuka Naval Prison.
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Ocho (Reiko Ike) es una mujer yakuza que se ve involucrada en una trama de tráfico de drogas, cuando investiga una serie de misteriosos asesinatos de mujeres en Tokyo. Pronto se dará cuenta de que detrás de ellos hay un grupo yakuza que explota mujeres obligándolas a transportar la droga en sus vaginas.
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Ocho (Reiko Ike) es una mujer yakuza que se ve involucrada en una trama de tráfico de drogas, cuando investiga una serie de misteriosos asesinatos de mujeres en Tokyo. Pronto se dará cuenta de que detrás de ellos hay un grupo yakuza que explota mujeres obligándolas a transportar la droga en sus vaginas.
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Shiro, un ronin nihilista sin ley, junto con un espadachín sin precedentes, dedica su tiempo a masacrar a sus enemigos. Arrastrando su incomodidad, intenta suicidarse saltando de un puente en una de sus muchas peleas sangrientas. Para su sorpresa, se encuentra reanimado por el cuerpo cálido y suave de una de las prostitutas del clan Bohachi, que controlan el distrito del place de la capital, Yoshiwara. Este clan con estrategias maquiavélicas y normas de vida de los más curiosas, se propone contratar a Shiro para librar a la ciudad de la competencia desleal de la prostitución, que floreció con libertad, pero este ultimo se da cuenta que esta siendo manipulado....
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With her first love that unfolded in the battlefield in her heart, and with a short sword and a pillbox as her weapons, female gambler Okatsu the Tiger Lily travels from gambling site to gambling site. Surrounding her are Omon, an outlaw star blind lone gambler; Onaka, a thief who’s after Okatsu to avenge her father’s death; Ohide, a tattoo artist whose back is covered by a dragon tattoo; and Oryu, a young girl sold as a prostitute to a gambling family.
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Sinopsis Cuando el segundo sucesor de la familia Tachibana sigue las reglas del mundo Yakuza y trata de asesinar al jefe del Grupo Okad, accidentalmente herirá a su hija y la dejará ciega. A partir de aquí se desencadenará una sangrienta y cruel venganza.
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Sinopsis Cuando el segundo sucesor de la familia Tachibana sigue las reglas del mundo Yakuza y trata de asesinar al jefe del Grupo Okad, accidentalmente herirá a su hija y la dejará ciega. A partir de aquí se desencadenará una sangrienta y cruel venganza.
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Hirosuke, encerrado en un manicomio, no recuerda más que algunos retazos de su niñez, y tampoco recuerda las circunstancias por las que él, estudiante de medicina, se ha visto recluido en dicho centro. Después de que otro interno intente estrangularle, consigue escapar y, gracias a una chica que trabaja en un circo, deducir que su pueblo natal está en algún lugar de la costa del Mar del Japón. Sin embargo, la chica es asesinada y Hirosuke tomado por el asesino, por lo que debe huir nuevamente.
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Hirosuke, encerrado en un manicomio, no recuerda más que algunos retazos de su niñez, y tampoco recuerda las circunstancias por las que él, estudiante de medicina, se ha visto recluido en dicho centro. Después de que otro interno intente estrangularle, consigue escapar y, gracias a una chica que trabaja en un circo, deducir que su pueblo natal está en algún lugar de la costa del Mar del Japón. Sin embargo, la chica es asesinada y Hirosuke tomado por el asesino, por lo que debe huir nuevamente.
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Un médico forense se pregunta por qué su esposa ha muerto. Investiga los extraños casos de asesinatos de mujeres...
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Un médico forense se pregunta por qué su esposa ha muerto. Investiga los extraños casos de asesinatos de mujeres...
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A story of yakuza lynching during the Edo, Meiji, and Showa periods.
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A story of yakuza lynching during the Edo, Meiji, and Showa periods.
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Japan nineteenth century. High demand for tattooed geisha generates an entire industry for their "production". Europeans pay more for tattooed beauties. Against this background, and considering the gorgeous tattooed women develop the history of confrontation between two highly skilled masters of tattoo.
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Japan nineteenth century. High demand for tattooed geisha generates an entire industry for their "production". Europeans pay more for tattooed beauties. Against this background, and considering the gorgeous tattooed women develop the history of confrontation between two highly skilled masters of tattoo.
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Japanese crime film
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Japanese crime film
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A Japanese woman is raped by her boyfriend day in day out.
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A Japanese woman is raped by her boyfriend day in day out.
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Three stories of moral sickness set during Japan’s prosperous Genroku era are told in this bloody follow-up to the sexploitation classic Shogun’s Joy of Torture, the politically incorrect moral lessons paint a trio of tales of tragic heroines caught up in violence, sadomasochism, incest and torture.
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Three stories of moral sickness set during Japan’s prosperous Genroku era are told in this bloody follow-up to the sexploitation classic Shogun’s Joy of Torture, the politically incorrect moral lessons paint a trio of tales of tragic heroines caught up in violence, sadomasochism, incest and torture.
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Ambientada en el Japón del Período Edo, la película narra tres historias distintas que tienen como nexo común la tortura en dicha época.
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Ambientada en el Japón del Período Edo, la película narra tres historias distintas que tienen como nexo común la tortura en dicha época.
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A look at the lives of a troupe of geishas working in a small seaside resort town. For the most part, their lives consist of greeting boatloads of oversexed businessmen and providing bawdy entertainment through the evening followed by private companionship at night, interspersed with occasional catfights with the rival geisha house. Their routine is suddenly thrown off by the appearance of an abandoned baby in the geishas' dormitory, followed by its disappearance only a short time later. Who could be responsible for such a thing?
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A look at the lives of a troupe of geishas working in a small seaside resort town. For the most part, their lives consist of greeting boatloads of oversexed businessmen and providing bawdy entertainment through the evening followed by private companionship at night, interspersed with occasional catfights with the rival geisha house. Their routine is suddenly thrown off by the appearance of an abandoned baby in the geishas' dormitory, followed by its disappearance only a short time later. Who could be responsible for such a thing?
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Situado en el período Tokugawa (o Edo), es la primera de las películas de la Serie los placeres de la Tortura de Teruo Ishii. Esta primera película retrata una sucesión de mujeres que son decapitadas, quemadas vivas en la hoguera y partidas en dos por bueyes. La película adopta un enfoque acrónimo de tres historias cortas que todo culminará en largas sesiones de tortura.
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Situado en el período Tokugawa (o Edo), es la primera de las películas de la Serie los placeres de la Tortura de Teruo Ishii. Esta primera película retrata una sucesión de mujeres que son decapitadas, quemadas vivas en la hoguera y partidas en dos por bueyes. La película adopta un enfoque acrónimo de tres historias cortas que todo culminará en largas sesiones de tortura.
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Continuation of the film Once and For All about two yakuza brothers Joji and Goro.
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Continuation of the film Once and For All about two yakuza brothers Joji and Goro.
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Convict son revenges innocent father's death.
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Convict son revenges innocent father's death.
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Film concerning warring yakuza families.
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Film concerning warring yakuza families.
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Japan-Hong Kong co-production.
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Japan-Hong Kong co-production.
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A number of recently released prisoners become involved in a racket with a rancher who is a rival to a neighboring landowner and wants to use the convicts to seize his ranch. The rancher does not know, however, that he had years before killed the parents of one of their number.
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A number of recently released prisoners become involved in a racket with a rancher who is a rival to a neighboring landowner and wants to use the convicts to seize his ranch. The rancher does not know, however, that he had years before killed the parents of one of their number.
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A gripping tale of friendship set against the backdrop of Hokkaido. Shinichi sets out to earn a few honest dollars with which to bail a friend out of jail.
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A gripping tale of friendship set against the backdrop of Hokkaido. Shinichi sets out to earn a few honest dollars with which to bail a friend out of jail.
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Upon returning to his hometown of Nagasaki, recently released prisoner Tachibana Shinichi must rejoin the Asahi gang family in order to pay back a past debt. Trouble brews when the rival gang that was responsible for sending him to prison learns of his return. Left with no alternative to their constant harassment and threats, Tachibana decides to take them on.
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Upon returning to his hometown of Nagasaki, recently released prisoner Tachibana Shinichi must rejoin the Asahi gang family in order to pay back a past debt. Trouble brews when the rival gang that was responsible for sending him to prison learns of his return. Left with no alternative to their constant harassment and threats, Tachibana decides to take them on.
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Two convicts just released from prison find a green bauble filled with diamonds — and try to prove they didn't steal it.
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Two convicts just released from prison find a green bauble filled with diamonds — and try to prove they didn't steal it.
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Abashiri Prison is located in the coldest place in Japan. Two men, handcuffed together have escaped from the prison, one a yakuza, the other a petty criminal, and although they hate each other they must work together if they are to evade capture in this harshest of climates.
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Abashiri Prison is located in the coldest place in Japan. Two men, handcuffed together have escaped from the prison, one a yakuza, the other a petty criminal, and although they hate each other they must work together if they are to evade capture in this harshest of climates.
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A bunch of pernicious salamander men from the planet Kulimon in the Moffit Galaxy plan on taking over Earth by unleashing a lethal plague on mankind. It's up to valiant superhero Starman from the Emerald Planet to save the human race before it's too late.
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Super criminals are planning to infiltrate Earth with mass nuclear destruction! Only Starman can defend civilization by thwarting evil!
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An evil brain from outer space unleashes monsters with deadly diseases on Earth with trying to conquer the universe. Superhero Starman must battle them all to save his planet.
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El superhéroe Starman (o Super Giant) es enviado por el planeta Esmeralda para proteger la Tierra de unos alienígenas provenientes de la galaxia Zafiro. Los zafirianos secuestran al doctor Yamanaka y lo fuerzan a usar su nave espacial contra la Tierra. La película junta las partes 5 y 6 de la serie "Super Giant" (1957-1959).
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Many outlaws are gathered at the front line of the Japanese Army in a shock troop.
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Many outlaws are gathered at the front line of the Japanese Army in a shock troop.
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Okawa Hashizo is 'Red Peony' Hanji who is thrown into a prison cell where he gets involved in a plot to steal government gold from the Shogun's vault. A tough fighter, he has to show his ability in order to keep from getting himself killed by the prisoners, too. Co-starring some of the biggest name in movies at the time, including Kataoka Chiezo and Tanba Tetsuro this film is loaded with surprises. From the opening moments when prisoners carry out their own form of justice, killing a crooked ex-constable, it is clear that this is the work of a visionary filmmaker.
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Okawa Hashizo is 'Red Peony' Hanji who is thrown into a prison cell where he gets involved in a plot to steal government gold from the Shogun's vault. A tough fighter, he has to show his ability in order to keep from getting himself killed by the prisoners, too. Co-starring some of the biggest name in movies at the time, including Kataoka Chiezo and Tanba Tetsuro this film is loaded with surprises. From the opening moments when prisoners carry out their own form of justice, killing a crooked ex-constable, it is clear that this is the work of a visionary filmmaker.
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Assassin Nanjo goes on a solitary mission to take revenge on the man who trapped him into a complicated drug deal.
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Assassin Nanjo goes on a solitary mission to take revenge on the man who trapped him into a complicated drug deal.
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First ninkyo yakuza picture at Toei directed by Teruo Ishii
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First ninkyo yakuza picture at Toei directed by Teruo Ishii
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A gang plans to steal twenty billion yen by safecracking tactics; however, they discover that one of the gang members is an infiltrating cop.
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A gang plans to steal twenty billion yen by safecracking tactics; however, they discover that one of the gang members is an infiltrating cop.
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The plot opens with the hero (Tsuruta) leaving prison, having served time through taking the blame for a fellow gang member’s crime. However, his former gang boss seems to have gone to seed, with people now killing each other and dealing in drugs. The hero then teams up with a lone operator (Tamba) who specialises in shaking down gangsters.
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The plot opens with the hero (Tsuruta) leaving prison, having served time through taking the blame for a fellow gang member’s crime. However, his former gang boss seems to have gone to seed, with people now killing each other and dealing in drugs. The hero then teams up with a lone operator (Tamba) who specialises in shaking down gangsters.
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G-men challenge a jewelry smuggling ring. The chase starts in Kyushu and continues to Kobe to Yokohama.
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G-men challenge a jewelry smuggling ring. The chase starts in Kyushu and continues to Kobe to Yokohama.
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Ishihama is planning a casino robbery with his wife and mother-in-law. They meet a man named Tsuneda who is planning the same robbery and agree to work together.
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Ishihama is planning a casino robbery with his wife and mother-in-law. They meet a man named Tsuneda who is planning the same robbery and agree to work together.
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Based on the mystery novel of the same name by Seichō Matsumoto.
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A gang of bank robbers plan a big robbery, but they all plot to betray each other after the heist for different reasons.
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Three bankers, out on holiday, climb the Japanese Alps. One dies under mysterious circumstances, and later it is suggested that perhaps the man was murdered.
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Two young crooks who scam betters in the race track are employed by a yakuza gang called the Shigemori Syndicate to steal a shipment of handguns from a rival gang. Somewhere in the process they find themselves on the run from their own gang and one of them becomes himself romantically entangled with the boss's girlfriend. An ambitious underboss of the gang offers them a way out if they murder the previous boss but things don't turn out as planned (for everyone).
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A omnibus movie consisting of the three parts: "Kechinbo", "Yowak" and "Kôshoku".
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It tells the story of a couple who fall into a trap set up by a sinister organization. One of them is a guy who is framed for the murder of his lover. The other is a woman pick-pocket who is entrapped by the organization's schemes involving their crimes. Fate places them together, and they start to investigate the prostitution ring run by the organization...
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It tells the story of a couple who fall into a trap set up by a sinister organization. One of them is a guy who is framed for the murder of his lover. The other is a woman pick-pocket who is entrapped by the organization's schemes involving their crimes. Fate places them together, and they start to investigate the prostitution ring run by the organization...
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Japanese action film.
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Japanese action film.
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From the king of Japanese exploitation films comes a criminal drama told in a semi-documentary fashion. The murder of the chief official of Kobe city's Customs triggers an investigation of a prostitution ring called the 'Yellow Line' that sells Japanese women. A hired assasin is betrayed by his organization, and kidnaps a woman who happens to be the girlfriend of a newspaper reporter.
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From the king of Japanese exploitation films comes a criminal drama told in a semi-documentary fashion. The murder of the chief official of Kobe city's Customs triggers an investigation of a prostitution ring called the 'Yellow Line' that sells Japanese women. A hired assasin is betrayed by his organization, and kidnaps a woman who happens to be the girlfriend of a newspaper reporter.
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Freelance reporter “Scoop” Machida is hot on the trail of a prostitution ring called the Black Line, when he is framed for the murder of a young woman. Forced to clear his own name, the handsome journalist sinks deeper into the Black Line’s rotten swamp of drugs, prostitution, and murder and finds unexpected help in Maya, a steamy female gambler familiar with the neon-lit streets, shadowy alleyways, and seedy nightclubs he must navigate. The closest film in the Line series to classic American film noir, Ishii’s Black Line is a pulpy assortment of crime film conventions including the starkly expressionistic black and white cinematography by Jûgyô Yoshida, a jazzy music score by Michiaki Watanabe, and a sleazy screenplay by Ishii and Ichirô Miyagawa.
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Freelance reporter “Scoop” Machida is hot on the trail of a prostitution ring called the Black Line, when he is framed for the murder of a young woman. Forced to clear his own name, the handsome journalist sinks deeper into the Black Line’s rotten swamp of drugs, prostitution, and murder and finds unexpected help in Maya, a steamy female gambler familiar with the neon-lit streets, shadowy alleyways, and seedy nightclubs he must navigate. The closest film in the Line series to classic American film noir, Ishii’s Black Line is a pulpy assortment of crime film conventions including the starkly expressionistic black and white cinematography by Jûgyô Yoshida, a jazzy music score by Michiaki Watanabe, and a sleazy screenplay by Ishii and Ichirô Miyagawa.
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1959 film directed by Teruo Ishii for Shintoho.
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War drama about army nurses.
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War drama about army nurses.
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Part of the Queen Bee series.
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First film in Teruo Ishii's Line series.
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Director Teruo Ishi's crime action follows the investigative adventures of an undercover cop working with a prostitution ring. It's done in an unique documentary style.
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Director Teruo Ishi's crime action follows the investigative adventures of an undercover cop working with a prostitution ring. It's done in an unique documentary style.
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The 6th Super Giant film. Although he was believed to be destroyed by the Nazi-like army, Super Giant breaks into the satellite, and a long, riotous battle ensues. (Part 2 of 2)
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The 5th Super Giant film. Super Giant pursues a Nazi-like army that operates on a huge satellite in space. The satellite is armed with weapons that could destroy whole cities on Earth from afar. (Part 1 of 2)
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Japanese mystery film.
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The 4th Super Giant film, in which he continues his fight against the Kapia Aliens (Part 2 of 2)
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The 3rd Super Giant film, in which he saves Earth from the threat of the reptile-like Kapia Aliens.
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The 2nd Super Giant film.
Super Giant continues his battle against the foreign terrorists. In return, they frame him for murder. (Part 2 of 2)
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The 1st film in the Super Giant movie series, in which the title hero saves the world from foreign terrorsts threatening Japan with a nuclear attack (Part 1 of 2)
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Boxing film directed by Teruo Ishii in his directorial debut.
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Japanese romance film.
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Japanese romance film.
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Based on the novel by Kojin Shimomura. Story of a young boy and his adventures in the country. His idyllic life is shattered by the illness and death of his mother.
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Un profesor de psicología universitario, Yamamoto, y su mujer Fumiko son padres de dos niños. Uno de ellos, Yudo, sufre de parálisis infantil y es objeto de burlas por parte de sus compañeros de escuela. Inspirados en la fuerza de voluntad de su hijo, la pareja decide emplear todos sus ahorros para fundar una escuela especial en la cual otros niños con el mismo problema puedan recibir atenciones y construir la necesaria autoconfianza con la cual enfrentar la vida.
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Un hombre triste y preocupado, Reikichi Mayumi (Masayuki Mori), encuentra un nuevo trabajo cinco años después del final de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Él escribirá cartas de amor de otras personas. Sus ideas sobre el amor y sus principios personales serán probados cuando se reencuentra con su ex novia, Michiko (Yoshigo Kuga), una mujer con un pasado oscuro marcado por la guerra.
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'Madre' es la historia de una madre pobre y trabajadora, con un marido enfermo, que se sacrifica para mantener a su familia en los suburbios de Tokio. La película define "Shomin Geki", un género cinematográfico japonés que presenta una representación realista de la clase baja económica, contada con elementos de comedia ligera y melodrama. Esta es la obra más conocida del director Mikio Naruse, aclamado por los historiadores de cine japoneses como un igual a Kurosawa, Ozu y Mizoguchi, pero subestimado en Occidente.
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A luckless geisha struggles to make a living for herself and her young son.
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One Sunday morning, Toshio Esaki, a young dentist, wakes up in his clinic. It seems that he was drunk and spent the night in the clinic instead of going home. When he goes into the laboratory to get a drink of water, he finds a woman wearing a green striped Western-style dress lying there.
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A bar girl tries to pass her three children, each from a different father, to rural relatives.
