Kenjiro Uemura

Asakura was told he could leave the gang if he killed Takahata, but he failed and was sentenced to two years. When he was released, the Oyane group was crushed, and instead, the emerging gangster Hokuyokai was in charge of the Oyane group's territory.

The Akiba and Shimura crime families run the streets of “K City”. With the construction of new buildings and new factories underway, the city has sprouted into a boomtown and business is good. Two of the most infamous mobs of Tokyo want a piece of the pie. As out-of-town yakuza flood the city overnight, the crime boss of the Akiba family, Tezuka (Joe Shishido), is released from prison after a five year sentence. He does not like the "change" he sees.

The love story between a traveling guest and a geisha who inadvertently becomes the leader of her father's yakuza clan, after his death.

Popular Japanese Group Sounds band, The Spiders, star in their second movie, a "HELP!" inspired rock n roll spy movie!

Tsunetaro Asakura AKA "Dynamite Tsune" is a talented gambler, but not infallable. After losing his Boss's money in a dice game he repays his debt by serving as a pit boss for a struggling coal mine in Kyuushu. Quickly there's trouble with the local mining competition, who doesn't always play a fair game. True to his hot-headed nickname, Tsune only gets into deeper trouble.

A crime film released in 1965

A decapitation at the hands of the shogun's monstrous misbegotten son kicks off the action and draws nomadic Nemuri Kyoshiro (Raizô Ichikawa) into more sword-fighting adventures when he's blamed for the beheading. Meanwhile, the head-chopper's mother is busy knocking off the shogun's lawful heirs to secure the shogunate for her son.

Three Iga ninja are on a hunt for Chidoken, a Takeda ninja sent out to assasinate Lord Nobunaga.

A wave of terror is threatening to unseat Shogun Yoshimune. Police stations are erupting into flames, convicts escaping from prison, houses robbed and vandalized, streets teeming with panicked citizens. Is Ijyuin Tanomo, highly-placed official of Owari clan, secretly using deadly ninja to foment riot and rebellion? Narumiya Shinbei, a lone samurai spy adept at ninjutsu must uncover the hidden hand orchestrating these shocking crimes. Shinbei enlists a small band of dedicated ninja to lay siege to the enemy’s stronghold, where his own sister works as an undercover agent. Now, ninja must fight ninja in a last desperate battle to save the shogunate.

Based on the novel of the same name by Seichō Matsumoto.

A bittersweet love story between yakuza Hiroshi and a married woman Reiko.

On his way to Tokyo one night, a truck driver picks up a country girl and has his way with her amidst a forest. A few days later he loses his job after a run-in with some punks, but is offered a job by a gangster impressed by his fighting skills. He tries to make amends with the girl he ravished, but becomes caught up in the ways of the underworld...

Sheriff Goro goes undercover to investigate drug smugglers.

일반 병사가 된 카지는 군대의 부조리를 보지 못하고 매번 부조리한 상황에 반항하게 된다. 하지만 자신과 같이 인간적인 면을 가지고 있는 선임 신조에게 끌려 그의 사상인 공산주의에 조금씩 끌리게 된다. 그러다 부상을 당한 카지는 병원에 입원을 하게 되고 그곳에서 자신과 같은 뜻을 가진 단게를 만나고 마음의 위안을 가지고 그곳에서 퇴원을 하며 자신의 고향 친구인 카게야마가 자신의 부대의 소대장으로 온다. 친구 카케야마의 도움을 통하여 신병들을 자신의 방법대로 인간적인 방법을 통하여 훈련시키게 되지만 이것을 탐탁치 않게 생각했던 선임들에게 매번 당하고 지내다 전쟁이 시작되고 카지는 전쟁에 휘말리게 되고 일본군은 대패를 하게 된다.

Ninth and final film in the Boy Detectives Club series. Features Tatsuo Umemiya's film debut.

The 3rd Moonlight Mask movie from the 50s.

Asako, a former telephone operator once heard the voice of a murder suspect which has continued to haunt her. Years later her husband invites his boss, Hamazaki, over for dinner and she realises his voice is suspiciously like that of the killer. Before she can investigate further, Hamazaki is found dead and her husband becomes the prime suspect.

Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Anko naze naku" by Takeo Fujishima.

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.

Japanese drama film.

One of Japanese folklore's most popular characters is brought to life on the silver screen in this terrific version of legendary Demon slaying Peach Boy.

A former boxer gets involved with a club hostess trying to escape the clutches of her gangster employer.

The action of this historical drama takes place against the background of poverty and hunger in the city of Edo and depicts young people rebelling against the contradictions of feudal society.

Nominated for Golden Berlin Bear.

시대는 막부. 시나가와 유곽에 위세 좋게 뛰어든 사베이지는 사실은 한 푼없는 가난뱅이다. 일해서 빚을 갚으려고 여관에 남은 사베이지는 요령 좋게 일하는 척을 한다. 친한 손님을 둘러싼 유녀들끼리의 싸움이나 밀린 돈을 받아내는 일 등, 끊임없이 일어나는 귀찮은 일들을 차례차례 해결하여 모두의 보배로, 유녀 오소메와 코하루는 완전히 마음을 빼앗기고 말았다. 장기 숙박을 하고 있는 쵸슈(長州)의 무사 다카스기 신사쿠 일당이 영국 영사관을 불태울 계획을 세우는 것을 알고 사베이지는 출입하는 목수에게 도면을 만들게 한다. 슬슬 철수하려고 여행 준비를 하는 사베이지 앞에 행방불명의 코하루를 찾는 억만장자 노인이 나타난다. 코하루는 죽었다고 거짓말을 하고 엉터리 묘지로 안내 하지만, 묘비에 새겨진 글자를 잠깐 보아도 이는 아이의 이름. 속았다고 화를 내는 노인을 무시하고 사베이지는 동해의 소나무 가로수 길을 가볍게 뛰어서 사라진다.

버스라는 한정된 공간에서 각양각색의 사람들이 벌이는 시끌벅적한 소동극. 산사태로 기차 운행이 중지되자 승객들은 어쩔 수 없이 낡은 버스에 몸을 싣는다. 하지만 무장 강도가 도주중이라는 소문이 퍼지고 버스의 승객들은 패닉에 빠진다. 이제 화려한 도시 여성, 배우 지망생, 거만한 중년 부부, 그리고 범죄자들이 다양한 사건을 만들어낸다.

A biopic about Japanese baseball player, Tetsuharu Kawakami.

The first postwar war movie depicting the tragedy of a special force that shook the world at the end of the Pacific War, with thrill and speed

전후 부흥이 한창 진행되고 있던 1950년대의 일본. 당시의 도쿄에 점재한 홍등가의 하나 ‘스자키’로 이어지는 다리의 기슭에 낡은 선술집이 있다. 매춘방지법시행 이후 머지않아 사라질 풍경 스자키의 유곽과 선술집을 배경으로 그곳에 출입하는 사람들의 일상과 남녀의 관계를 메마른 정서와 유머로 그려내고 있다.

Emi Ikushima, a star actress in the Roses, is half-hearted, but she wasn't disappointed by the news of her father Enmy's sudden death, and she performed enthusiastically on the stage that night, attracting a crowded audience.

Japanese crime film.

A remake of High Noon (1952) as a Japanese jidai-geki sword-fighting movie.

Ruriko's father is a well known scientist who's involved in secret research that even his family doesn't know about. Ever since he moved up to the research laboratory in Hokkaido, Ruriko hasn't heard from him. The only thing that reminded her of his warmth was the green music box that he’d left behind for her. She longed to reunite with her father. The little box played music that lifted her spirits, to a place where everything was perfect.

Shigeki Kachi, Tosuke Satomura, and Nanako, who belong to the theater company Vuanbert around Dosa, withdrew at the indignation of the chairman Hayashi and seeked their own careers in the film industry.

Japanese musical.

12세기 에도 시대, 곳곳에서 반란이 일어나고 혼란과 공포가 교토를 뒤덮는다. 교토의 산조성 또한 공격을 당하고, 왕족인 키사는 젊은 사무라이 모리토에게 구출된다. 이때의 인연을 시작으로 모리토는 그녀를 사랑하게 되지만 키사는 벌써 모리토 보다 계급이 높은 사무라이 남편이 있는 몸이다. 모리토는 충성스러운 사무라이지만 그녀를 향한 사랑 때문에 결국 이성을 잃게 되고 키사의 고모까지 인질로 잡으면서 키사를 자기 것으로 만들려고 한다. 일본에서 처음으로 이스트만 컬러를 사용한 작품으로, 화려한 색감과 의상으로 한 순간도 눈을 떼지 못하게 만든다. 기쿠치 칸의 역사극을 영화화했으며, 1954년 칸 영화제 그랑프리를 수상했다.

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grave misgivings about leading Japan's navy into war with the United States. He opposes the attack on Pearl Harbor, but, overruled, he leads his forces to the best of his ability.

Dedication of the Great Buddha is a 1952 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa. It was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival.

Adaptation of the original story by Hida Yoshiro, whose depiction of the world of the yakuza is unparalleled. Gisuke, a weather-beaten yakuza with nostalgia and memories of love in his heart.

Based on the novel The Vampire (Kyūketsuki) by Edogawa Ranpo.

An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the local gangster bosses.

When a young woman is named as the prime suspect in a murder, her girlfriend and her girlfriend's boyfriend set out to prove her innocence. Their investigation leads them to an isolated, creepy house in the middle of nowhere, where sinister goings-on abound.

당시 군의관으로 일하던 쿄지는 매독환자를 수술 하던 중 메스에 손을 베어 자신도 매독에 걸리고 만다. 어려운 환경 때문에 치료도 제대로 못한 쿄지는 전쟁이 끝나고 고향으로 돌아오지만 매독 때문에 약혼자와의 결혼까지 포기한다. 쿄지는 자신이 매독에 걸렸단 사실을 비밀로 하지만 간호사인 미네기시는 매독치료약이 없어진 사실을 눈치챈다.

Horror film directed by Kôzô Saeki.

Based on the comic by Kaoru Akiyoshi

Based on the short story The Psychological Test by Edogawa Rampo.

A band of guerrillas fight against occupying British forces in Malaya.