Yūji Hori

The story of Sanshiro Sugata, a young man who wants to learn the new art of judo. A wise teacher reveals to Sanshiro that judo is not merely a means of combat nor a demonstration of physical skill, but an art which reveals the artist to himself.

Tetsuya Watari, a modern youth idol, co-stars with Tetsuro Tamba for the first time, and a young man who survives freely is an action giant who swings down the iron arm of justice and anger toward evil

Two people disappeared, engineers of the company Yamato Matsui and Koyama. The two worked overtime, and it is proven that they consumed alcohol together. According to the sushi restaurant employee who delivered the order around 9 p.m., the two were arguing loudly. Traces of blood were found at the scene, and it looks like a murder occurred. The Investigative Department begins an investigation… The 24nd work from the popular series "Keishicho Monogatari", which documents the activities of the First Investigation Division of the Capital Police Department.

A 16-year-old high school student Midori Matsumoto was found dead on the banks of the Tama River. The only clue is shoe marks on rubber soles. From the interview of witnesses, it became clear that Midori was walking with a guy last night. In addition, it turned out that Midori was close to a college student Kimoto, and a high school student Miyazaki. According to his friends, Miyazaki had an alibi, but Kimoto did not. A unique work in which the problems of teenage sex are considered from the point of view of the murder of a girl. The 21nd work from the popular series "Keishicho Monogatari", which documents the activities of the First Investigation Division of the Capital Police Department.

A burnt corpse of a man was found in Okutama. As a result of the investigation, it turns out that the criminal strangled the victim with a bandage, smashed his face with an oil canister and burned the body, trying to hide the identity of the victim. But the investigation establishes that the victim is a former criminal named Hisashi Sayama. According to the daughter-in-law of the Sayama, a man named Kitamura got him a job, so he left home with a copy of the family register. Trying to find the killer, the First Investigation Department is investigating all over the country, including Akita, Yokkaichi and Okinawa.

This time, the investigation division is investigating the case of a man who confessed to killing a woman in a labyrinth 2 years ago, adhering to the constitutional provision that "confessing a suspect is not a crime." The 20nd work from the popular series "Keishicho Monogatari", which documents the activities of the First Investigation Division of the Capital Police Department.

Miyoko Sekiguchi, who works at a second-rate trading company, and car mechanic Koji Fukumoto are in love. The morning after Koji and Miyoko went out for a drive, the strangled corpse of a call girl is discovered in Toyamagahara. Chief Akagi, Detective Sergeant Sawada, and the other detectives begin to suspect Koji during their investigation. Koji insists he's innocent, but has no evidence to prove it. Even when detectives come to Miyoko's home and workplace and her coworkers begin to look down on her, Miyoko continues to trust and love Koji...

The investigation team of the police department is chasing a vicious criminal who kidnaps children, the key to catching the villain this time is the phone. The 18th work from the series "Keishicho Monogatari".

A leading postwar Japanese film critic and theorist who co-founded the seminal film magazine Eiga Hihyo (Film Criticism) in 1957, Eizo Yamagiwa made his directorial debut with this independent feature—long thought lost until a negative was recently discovered—about a group of idle bourgeois students known as the “Roppongi Tribe” (Roppongi zoku). Depicting the resignation and nihilism of the postwar generation in the years following the Anpo Treaty conflicts through a coming-of-age narrative, Yamagiwa offers sharp criticism of the prevalent characterizations of Japan's new youth offered by Nikkatsu's taiyozoku (“Sun Tribe”) films and the New Wave at large.

The murder took place at a hotel in Matsushima. The victim is a woman about 28 years old. The suspect is a young man who visited her the night before, and the evidence, in addition to shoe horns and handkerchiefs, is soap with the name of the tavern. When detectives at Shiogama Station followed the man's tracks, it turned out that he had come from Ueno.

Detectives of the First Investigation Division of the Capital Police Department are investigating the murder of a 15-year-old girl, whose strangled corpse was found in the bay of the Tama River. As usual, the film runs only one hour and doesn’t depart too far from the usual formula; however, it greatly benefits from frequent outdoor locations that were missing from the previous film. It also touches far more serious topics, such as child abuse and mental insanity. 16th work from the popular series "Keishicho Monogatari", which documents the activities of the First Investigation Division of the Capital Police Department.

The First Investigation Department is investigating a murder case that took place at a government agency, with particular attention to finding an alibi for the suspects. A security guard was killed in the building, the safe was broken into, but nothing was stolen. The three suspects have alibis, but who then killed the guard and broke into the safe? The 15th work from the popular series "Keishicho Monogatari", which documents the activities of the First Investigation Division of the Capital Police Department. Sonny Chiba's first film role as one of the seven detectives.

A comedy of a high-spirited geisha, Koharu, who is at risk of being trapped in a conspiracy to take over a lucrative diamond mine business.

An elderly woman, Ume Matsumoto, complained to the First Investigation Department that her son Hirasaka, who runs a shoe store, had disappeared. The ominous foreboding of the First Investigation Department hit the mark, it turned out that the discovered unidentified body of the drowned man was Hirasaka. Moreover, the land in front of the station, owned by Hirasaka, was sold by someone. Suspecting that this is a planned murder, the Investigative Group, fearing the escape of the criminal, begins to act secretly, without creating an investigation headquarters.

On a quiet spring day in the suburbs, a stray dog found the corpse of a baby. Three days after his death, the blood group of the victim was determined. Detectives Hayashi, Kaneko, Nagata and Yamagata begin their investigation, suspecting the parents of the murdered child. They use a towel, baby diapers and bruises on the baby's body as clues in the investigation. Who killed the baby?

Detective Tarao investigates the deaths of police officers who were involved in solving a kidnapping case.

汐留駅の倉庫の片隅に、荷主、荷受人ともに不明のジュラルミン・トランクが一つ光っていた。腐敗臭がひどい。開けると、女の死体が出た。死体の目からはコンタクト・レンズが摘出され、解剖の結果、絞殺死、年齢三十歳前後、肋膜を患ったことがある等が判った。トランクの発送先が大阪天王寺駅であったことから、トランク詰殺人事件捜査本部は東京と大阪に設置された。天王寺駅でトランクを受附けた者の証言では、二十五、六歳色白の男が、野球帽の少年を伴い、リヤカーで運んで来たという。さらに、梅田駅の倉庫係の証言によれば、色白の男が隅田川駅から梅田駅に到着したトランクを引取りに来たこと、そして同じ日に、やはり色白の男が天王寺駅から汐留駅にそのトランクを送っているという。タクシー運転手の口から、重いトランクを茶臼山の近くまで運び、茶臼山に遊ぶ野球帽の少年がリヤカーを貸し、トランクを天王寺駅まで運んだことも判った。殺された女の身許が判明した。草間文子といい、化粧品セールスのため関西に出張するといい、行方不明、過去に肋膜を患い、銀行預金五十六万円を持っていた。が、そのうち五十四万円が引出されていた。二十五歳位の色白の男によってだ。長田部長刑事、山形刑事は、隅田川駅へトランクを運んだ男を挙げた。隅田館というアパートから二十五歳位の男に頼まれて運んだという。隅田館に踏みこんだ時には、その男は姿を消していた。管理人の話では、男は吉村春夫といい、化粧品セールスの女が出入りしていたという。吉村の友人から、花山あや子という恋人がいたことも知った。あや子のアパートに張込みを続け、逃亡寸前の彼女を捕えた。吉村とともに、九時三十分の東京駅発、筑紫号で博多へ逃亡を企てたのだ。待合せ場所は熱海。すでに列車は熱海を出ている。あや子を忘れられない吉村は、上り列車に乗っていることが分った。終着駅東京で、吉村は捕えられた。

Japanese drama film.

Based on Matsumoto Seicho's classic mystery novel of the same name, the story centers around a group of detectives who are determined to find the truth behind an apparent double suicide.

This is the story of Gonpachi, a ronin who falls in love with the daughter of a man he had killed many years before.

A comical love story between two college students — Hitomi, a strong-willed girl, and Shogo, a handsome, earnest and poverty stricken man.

暗黒の夜空に広がる断末魔の絶叫！顔を見られたスリは、時々恐ろしい殺人凶行に出るものである。無残に横たわる惨殺死体をめぐって、警視庁捜査陣は俄然色めき立ち、悲嘆にくれる被害者の妻子の身辺はもちろん、現場付近の聞き込みに万全を期すとともに、草の根を分けて現場の検証に乗り出した。その結果、被害者のものと思われる血糊のついた財布を発見。さらには女物の財布やイヤリングなどが見つかる。女物の財布は男娼が以前掏られたものと判明、男娼の証言で胡麻塩頭のスリの存在が浮かび上がってきた。だが翌日、胡麻塩頭の男は轢死体となって発見された―。

オートレース場で大穴が出た瞬間、サラリーマン風の男がガックリと倒れる。群衆を掻き分けて、警視庁捜査一課が遺体の検証に乗り出す。目撃者を尋ねても、観衆が熱狂していた中での出来事であり、何ら手掛かりがなく、証拠品は、手製拳銃による銃弾代わりのパチンコ玉と長田部長刑事がスタンドの隅で拾った焼け焦げた手拭いの端切れのみ。捜査一課は大穴の賞金を払い戻した怪しい男を探り当てる。ダフ屋の池本雄一という男だった。急遽、雄一のヤサに踏み込むが、タッチの差で取り逃がしてしまう。そして、雄一の立ち寄った呑み屋から山村刑事らが指紋つきのコップを押収していると、突如背後から私製拳銃の銃弾に曝され、長田刑事が撃たれてしまう。

Revenge breeds revenge. Ikuta Denpachiro, the martial arts instructor of the Honda family in Koriyama, lost a fight to the young samurai Enjo Sozaemon in a martial arts tournament and as a result lost his position and was expelled from home. Wanting to avenge the mockery of himself, he treacherously kills Sozaemon and goes on the run. After long wanderings, Denpachiro, it would seem, finds a peaceful life and love in the face of a devoted and courageous Okatsu, but the brothers of the murdered man are already on his trail, wanting to avenge the death of Sozaemon. The film is based on a story by Itaro Yamagami.

斬新なスリルと迫力が好評の『警視庁物語』シリーズ第4作。夜の赤坂で、自動車窃盗が出没。今回狙われたのは、56年型黒セダンで、持ち主の外国人紳士が射殺された。捜査本部は、二手に別れて犯人が乗り捨てた車の検証と、殺された外国人の婚約者の訊問を進めていった。調べを進めるうち、盗まれた車は大阪方面で売捌かれているとの情報を得て、関西にも特別捜査指令を出した。広範囲にわたる捜査の末、捜査陣は事件解決へと辿りつくことができるのか？

午前１時過ぎのガソリンスタンドに一台のタクシーが滑り込んだ。当直の勤務員には馴染み深い運転手であった。運転手はいつになく口数が少なく、ガソリンが満タンになると支払いを済ませてまた車を駆って去って行った。当直員は折巣に入って帳簿整理にかかる。彼は走り去った筈の今のタクシーがヘッドライトを消してまた静かにスタンドに近付いてきたことを知らない。数分後、銃声が響く。血だるまの死体を残して、タクシーは闇の中に消えて行った…。

Junpei Kihara, a young president of the University's wrestling club, is nicknamed "Mr. Chop". One day, on the way back from visiting the hospital after being thrown by Nobuyoshi Shinohara during practice and injured, he met Asako, the sister of Arisawa's mother, Katsuko. When they entering a coffee shop run by Asako's best friend Hisako, Hisako misunderstood them as lovers...

夜明け前の東京を目指す東北本線上がり貨物四二六列車。最後尾の郵便貨車の中では3名の乗務員が郵便物の整理に励んでいた。

深夜の深川でタクシー強盗殺人事件が起った。巧妙な手口から犯人を常習犯と睨んだ警視庁捜査一課の長田、宮川の両刑事は、遺留品を手掛りに柳橋に飛び、農林省官吏須見に嫌疑がかかるが、彼の情婦由美の言葉から、白マスク、革ジャンパーの男が犯人と推定されるに至った。だが、この事件が解決を見ないうちに、続いて新橋で同一手口による新事件が発生し、今度は運転手の屍体が見つからなかった。

One of the earliest Japanese cop films following a mysterious killing on the last train to Mitaka, Tokyo.

A group of five law enforcers search Edo for a missing sword.

The story about the rise and fall of the famed mercenaries, Shinsengumi, who are hired by a crumbling feudal government.

The eldest daughter of a rural family Mon returns home from Tokyo pregnant after an affair with a college student Kobata, which causes a scandal that will threaten the marriage prospects of the younger sister San, in her cash-strapped family. The ill-tempered eldest brother Inokichi decides to take on the role of disciplinarian, with harrowing results.

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 was also co-written by Ito, adding to the relatedness of An Heir's Place.

An intellectual couple in a staid and tedious marriage are surprised when the wife’s niece, who has run away from home, turns up unexpectedly to stay with them. Their mundane lives are sent into disarray by the emotional and energetic Ako.

Horror film directed by Minoru Inuzuka.

Shinnosuke is introduced to Shizu as a prospective marriage partner, but he falls in love with her widowed sister Oyu. Convention forbids Oyu to marry because she has to raise her son as the head of her husband's family. Oyu convinces Shinnosuke and Shizu to marry so that she can remain close to Shinnosuke.

Genji, the illegitimate offspring of a Japanese potentate, goes by the philosophy of "love 'em and leave 'em" as a matter of course. Only when his heart is broken by Awaji does Genji realizes how much pain he himself has caused.

A luckless geisha struggles to make a living for herself and her young son.

「群狼」「人生選手」の筈見恒夫が製作担当、「群狼」「海のＧメン　玄海灘の狼」の志村敏夫が監督に当っている。原作は、講談倶楽部に掲載された島田一男の探偵小説を、「大都会の丑満時」の笠原良三が脚色している。俳優は「こころ妻」の堀雄二「雪夫人絵図(1950)」の久我美子、「羅生門」の千秋実、「君が心の妻」の月丘千秋、「いつの日君帰る」の田崎潤等。

Setsuko is unhappily to Mimura, an engineer with no job and a bad drinking habit. She had always been in love with Hiroshi but both of them failed to propose when Hiroshi left for France a few years ago. Now he is back and Mariko (Setsuko's sister) tries to reunite them. She too is secretly in love with Hiroshi.

Adaptation of a novel by Yojiro Ishizaka, originally released in two parts.

谷崎潤一郎の同名小説を八住利雄が脚色し阿部豊が監督した文芸作。大阪を舞台に美しい四姉妹が織りなす物語。『細雪』はこの後、島耕二(1959年)と市川崑(1983年)により映画化された。四女の妙子を演じた高峰秀子が抜群の演技力を見せる。洪水のシーンに特撮が使われ、豪華な衣装が多数用意されるなど、当時としては破格の製作費がかけられたという。 　昭和初期の蒔岡家。長女の鶴子は夫と共に古い暖簾を守り、次女の幸子は婿養子を迎えて芦屋に分家、三女の雪子は幸子夫妻から縁談を持ちかけられるが上手くいかない。四女の妙子は恋仲になったカメラマンが死亡したことから、自暴自棄になってしまう…。

Three humorous love stories set in rural Japan.

Japanese comedy film.

The Forgotten Children

A young man rents an apartment in Tokyo and discover it was built by his father. He falls in love with the daughter of the mistress of the house and decides to marry her. Only to discover that his father is is in debt and wants him to marry Ranko so that she may help his company by granting 1.5 million yen. Teruko decides to borrow money from a greedy bar owner who lends her money on certain conditions and photographs her without her consent. A love traingle forms between Koroku, Ranko, and Teruko. Things complicate when Koroku marries Teruko and Tsugawa threatens them for the money causing many twists and turns.

The corpse of a man is found in the Dobu River in Tokyo, the victim was a man named Genzaburo Sakai, who was engaged in debt collection. The shoe shiner Kinoshita, who was in debt to Sakai, was soon apprehended. During interrogation, Kinoshita said that he was the one who killed Sakai. However, after a while, he admitted that he lied, because he thought that in prison he could eat plenty of rice for free. The investigation established that Sakai was a repatriate from Manchuria, and after returning to Japan, he had a wife, Rie Kawai. The investigation begins the search for Rie... The 23nd work from the popular series "Keishicho Monogatari", which documents the activities of the First Investigation Division of the Capital Police Department.

In the former landfill, where construction is currently underway, the corpse of a middle-aged man with an unusual rosary in his hand was dug up. An autopsy showed that the victim was about 40 years old, 170 cm tall, had bad teeth, and had been strangled about a month ago. The police department begins an investigation, Detectives Hayashi and Kitagawa set out to investigate the origin of the rosary, and Detectives Nagata and Watanabe begin interviewing construction workers. In the end, it turns out that the rosary belongs to some new religion... The 19th work from the series "Keishicho Monogatari".