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Motomu Ida movie
Tōkyō dodonpa musume
Yasuichiro Isa, who works in the labor section of Sone Mining Tokyo Headquarters, paid a monthly fee for his younger brother, Reiji, who was in...
Striving to Live
1962 Japanese movie
Angel and the Outlaw
Otoko to otoko no ikiru machi
A deep mist envelops the port city of Yokohama. The scent of crime is everywhere. As an executive member of a drug trafficking syndicate, Kano is...
Love Eternal
A rumbunctious and ribald tale of a troupe of travelling actors who alternate highlights of kabuki theatre with strip shows.
Stolen Desire
Hana no saigetsu
A celebrity, dissatisfied with his personal and professional lives, impulsively leaves fast-paced Tokyo to deliver a much-needed jeep to a remote...
I Hate But Love
Set in Kawaguchi in the early 60s, this simple story chronicles the lives of foundry families and one girl's dreams of higher education.
Foundry Town
The Frozen Plains
Against the bosses of the underworld that dominate Yokohama, Kobe, and Hong Kong, ace Joe, who plays an invincible gunman, shows off his transcendent...
Joe of Aces: Give and Take
Shūmatsu-ya hanjō-ki
零戦黒雲一家
Little dark-eyed boy Kazuo. Yes, he dreamed of the sea. However, like everyone here in the village. Kazuo only wanted to study first, to finish...
Wind and waves of the South
Facing to the Clouds
A noir action whodunit with Kobayashi his usual jaunty self as the smart aleck private eye whose missing person search soon becomes a murder case....
Badge of the Night
In the nine part Wataridori series (1959-1962), Kobayashi played a wanderer on Japan’s back roads with most of the accoutrements of a Western...
The Rambler Goes North
Saheji, a man-about-town, gets stuck at a high-class brothel when he can’t pay the bill. He makes the best of his situation by performing...
A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era
In this fifth episode of the "Wataridori" series, Taki Shinji (Kobayashi Akira) drifts north to Hokkaido, where he helps protect an Ainu village from...
The Rambler Rides Again
Japanese drama film.
Such is Life
After their father dies, his children try to get by on a house boat.
Modern Children
早射ち無頼 大平原の男
Hitori tabi
Seven years ago, Ishimatsu Toshio, a talented radio producer at Zen Nihon Hōsō, witnessed a crazed drug addict murder his wife and then...
The Wild Reporter
"Tomorrow is Another Day" tells the story of three brothers who struggle to shake free of the father's ties to the yakuza underworld. A star vehicle...
Ashita wa Ashita no Kaze ga Fuku
As the post-war turmoil continued, Take, the boss of the waifs, stole the money of US soldiers and lived with friends. They were like children of...
Prince of Wolves
Joji Dan tries to find the heir of a prosperous Japanese millionaire who died in Mexico. However, the bandits want to take over the inheritance and...
I'll End in Hell
Ai to shi no katami
Jigoku no yoru wa makka da ze
In the thriving Tokyo neighborhood of Ginza, a woman in the process of selling her estranged husband’s art collection attempts to identify the...
Tales of Ginza
Bōkyō no umi
Whirlwind Call the Storm - Ginza Hoodlum's Diary
The tragic tale of Kiyono, a young woman from the mountain who fell in love with Takuji, a fisherman's son, and her devotion to him during a time of...
The Flame of Devotion
Shashō monogatari tabi wa michidzure
The Human Cyclone
A musical film based on the original work of Saigo Teruhiko. After leaving the juvenile detention center and returning to his hometown of Ibusuki,...
The Scarred Angel
A young journalist is writing an article on what happens to girls who are raped. He uncovers the story of a young girl who committed suicide when...
Loss of innocence
Wakai futari
1961 Japanese movie
Dai shusse monogatari
Kosuke Suzuki was presumed dead after boss Toseikai Setouchi lynched him and threw him into the sea off the coast of Kobe. However, three months...
Immortal Guy
1958 Newspaper Association Sweepstakes Winning Broadcast Drama Movie. A heartwarming and moving story that bloomed behind the competition between...
JA750 Gōki Yukuefumei
Kosuke Suzuki returns to Hakata's hometown after learning that his best friend Takehara has disappeared. Kosuke is persistently hindered by Hasebe...
The Reckless One
A unique action-packed drama that tells the story of a Yakuza man who craves blood like crazy, unaware that he has fallen into a trap set by his...
I'll Kill the Women
Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Tokyo gozen sanji" by Frank Nagai.
東京午前三時
In 1906, after finishing a tough migrant job in the Philippines, Takichi has returned to Japan. He starts to work as a rickshaw driver, but his lover...
Our Town
Japanese comedy film.
Sararīman monogatari - Taiki bansai
Japanese action film.
The Man From the Sea
Set in post-war Japan, a group of five, four men and one woman, gathers in the basement of a butcher shop to dig up a cache of morphine buried during...
Endless Desire
Koreyoshi Kurahara's ingeniously plotted, pocket-size noir concerns the intertwined fates of a desperate bank manager, blackmailed for book-cooking,...
Intimidation
Ryuji Oshima, a gambler, kills Saiga in self-defense, and considering himself unfit to lead men, secludes himself in a temple to atone for his...
Fight of the Gamblers
Jiro, a young yakuza, and Mami, a diplomat’s daughter, are two young lovers from different worlds. Having met by accident, they soon discover a...
The Mud-Spattered Pure Heart
Wakae is a 15 year old girl who lived under the same roof with her alcoholic father and stepmom. Her mother had died years ago. She spends her nights...
Bad Girl
Heartwarming story of an ambitious girl who becomes a concert pianist with the help of her musician father.
The Song of Love
On a cold winter day, Goro Fujikawa (Tetsuya Watari) and Masahiko murder the mob boss of Meishin-Kai. The deed costs them time in prison, but Goro...
Outlaw: Goro the Assassin
Kakedashi keiji
Maki, a porter at the Sakura Hotel, finds a body in Room No. 2 and picks up a piece of paper on which is written "one-third of the key", also the...
A Turning to Hell
The young rambler, Shinji Taki, with his guitar arrives a hot spa town at the foot of Mount Aizu Bandai. Of course he solves the problems in the town...
The Rambler in the Sunset
Lost in the Sun
In the city of Yokosuka, Kinta and his lover Haruko, both involved with yakuza, brave the post-occupation period with a goal to be together.
Pigs and Battleships
In the dying months of the Meiji era, a sympathetic student befriends a married couple, but soon realizes they share a curiously strained...
The Heart
Emerging from a stint in prison, yakuza lieutenant Sumukawa discovers that his gang has disintegrated. An ambitious type, he quickly hooks up with...
Retaliation
Mourning the death of her boyfriend, Yukiko wanders aimlessly from one city to another. During her mourning, she becomes addicted to gambling. One...
Woman Gambler
Arikawa runs a transport company. But this is only a front for his gambling house. Yuriko is a regular on the scene, and she is fascinated by the...
Gambling Kitten
Story of an ex-con trying to go straight, but of course the old ways die hard.
Farewell to Southern Tosa
Goro (Tetsuya Watari) wants to put his dark past behind. He heads to Hirosaki City to offer his condolences to Yumeko and to reunite with Yukiko...
Outlaw: Gangster VIP 2
In 1936 under the war clouds over the Manchurian border, 60-year-old Oshima Shozaburo is concerned about the future of his only son, Ryuji, who has...
The Symbol of a Man
A violent story of loyalty and revenge among the many "yakuza" or gambling groups in Japan.
The Dragon Crest
A Tokyo student transfers to a rural school and finds it difficult to adjust himself to its customs and traditions. One of the customs is the wearing...
The School Cap
In a warehouse area at night, a drunk chief engineer is stabbed to death by someone who whistles. After the break of dawn, two seamen join the crew...
The Eagle and the Hawk
When a middle aged salaryman is unknowingly used by drug traffickers he is dishonored and fires back at the Yakuza bosses, with destructive...
The Sleeping Beast Within
The Sengoku Era was coming to an end. The monopoly of the ever powerful shogun, Ieyasu Tokugawa, was at a near. Only one man was brave enough to...
Taking the Castle
Patronized by a gang ruling the city, Mako delinquently plays around a night club every night with her bad company. One night, a guy Hideo gets...
Bad Girl Mako
When his sister commits suicide as a result of his actions, Rokuheita, an enforcer for the Yagyu ninja clan, considers his choices and eventually...
Haunted Samurai
A former boxer gets involved with a club hostess trying to escape the clutches of her gangster employer.
I Am Waiting
Rambler Shinji arrives in town armed with nothing but a guitar. With assistance from an old gun-for-hire friend, he sets about to stop the mob from...
The Guitarist and the Rancher
Seventh in the nine-film series, "The Wandering Guitarist".
Rambling in the Sea
In the backstreets of Ginza, the boss of a hairdressing salon is found dead, killed by strangulation. The detective on the case soon hears rumors...
The Shadow of Fear
Hijo tehai
Student Double Suicide
おヤエの家つき女中
Hey, please, hold me... A thrilling physical farewell gift that a pure-hearted adult received while trembling!! Set in a simple rural town's post...
Shiroi natsu
Japanese Western set at a mountain ranch in Kyushu.
The Plateau Man
A nanny, played by Sayuri Yoshinaga, who lives and works in a Tokyo family, causes all kinds of waves with her outspoken personality and behavior in...
Kaze to Ki to Sora to
A young girl knows that she is going to die and in this she is supported by the devotion of the boy who loves her. They originally met at the...
Gazing at Love and Death