Kotoe Hatsui
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1929-01-08
Locus Natus: Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Et ut: 初井言栄, קוטו הטסוי
Castle in the Sky
A young boy and a girl with a magic crystal must race against pirates and foreign agents in a search for a legendary floating castle.
release : 1986.08.02popularis : 39.459
Itsudemo yume o
This is a factory area in downtown Tokyo, and Hikaru, nicknamed Pika-chan, is a nurse at the Mihara Clinic, a friend of the poor.
release : 1963.02.11popularis : 2.388
Covered Wagon
A Western-inspired film where a pair of traveling beekeepers odyssey by covered wagon from Kyushu, the southernmost of the Japanese archipelago's...
release : 1960.10.22popularis : 1.254
The Four Roughnecks
Gimme gimme gimme! Yusaku Matsuda and his gang are on the hunt for women, money and more money! Takeo Natsuki (Yusaku Matsuda) was just released...
release : 1974.11.22popularis : 2.026
Rika: The Mixed-Blood Girl
First film of a trilogy following the dramatic life of Rika, a half-Japanese/half-American woman who becomes the tough-as-nails leader of an all-girl...
release : 1972.11.26popularis : 1.29
Story of a Prostitute
Volunteering as a "comfort woman" on the Manchurian front, where she is expected to service hundreds of soldiers, Harumi is commandeered by the...
release : 1965.02.27popularis : 4.405
I Want To Live Once More: Shinjuku Bus Fire Incident
On the night of August 19, 1980, a bus was set on fire by the vagrant Hirofumi Maruyama at the Shinjuku West Exit Bus Terminal. In the burning...
release : 1985.03.02popularis : 2.594
Take Aim at the Police Van
A sniper kills two prisoners in a police van, and the driver sets out to find the killer.
release : 1960.01.27popularis : 3.974
Ballad of Orin
A blind traveling musician is abused and oppressed wherever she goes, even as the modern world imposes change around her.
release : 1977.11.19popularis : 10.966
Wind and waves of the South
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...
release : 1961.11.19popularis : 1.633
Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards!
Tajima is a private detective in charge of his own company, Detective Bureau 2-3. When warring criminal gangs go overboard by robbing U.S. military...
release : 1963.01.27popularis : 2.339
Rika 3: Juvenile's Lullaby
Reform schools are a way of protecting society by ridding it of lawless juvenile delinquents. But who's protecting the juvenile delinquents from...
release : 1973.06.23popularis : 1.804
Forbidden Lips
A youth lyrical story of pure love of a girl who grew up in the Kyoto Gion quarter, with a geisha mother and sisters Maiko and a college student.
release : 1958.01.03popularis : 0.724
Black Board
Takeshi Yasui, a junior high school student is found dead in a river. The police investigate it as a murder related to bullying. The dead boy turns...
release : 1986.09.17popularis : 1.199
My Way
Based on a true story, an elderly woman resiliently spends nine months attempting to retrieve her husband's dead body, fighting government...
release : 1974.09.07popularis : 2.656
Karate Cop
A martial arts master/detective investigates a series of murders and helps a deaf bathhouse attendant, Hisako.
release : 1982.04.17popularis : 1.805
Journey to the North
Winter holidays at the university. Eikichi visits a city in the north of the country, the hometown of Yuko, a classmate for whom he has feelings....
release : 1967.01.03popularis : 1.145
Violent Fraternity
Set in Shibuya in 1949, this is another film based on real life former yakuza boss Noboru Ando's memoirs.
release : 1974.11.01popularis : 1.48
Everything Goes Wrong
Everything goes wrong when Jiro tries to break up his mother's relationship with a business man. The young rebel Jiro has to deal with an environment...
release : 1960.10.08popularis : 4.638
Dark Room
A writer haunted by the death of his wife and threatened by the imagined infidelities of his lovers uses his affairs for the subjects of his novels.
release : 1983.09.17popularis : 3.38
新遊侠伝
In this town, Kagosuke and Ryukichi of the Okamoto family, who are deeply committed to the yakuza way, are straightforward and justice-loving...
release : 1966.11.20popularis : 0.946
Live Today, Die Tomorrow!
Michio Yamada, a recent school graduate, is sent to Tokyo to work as a fruit-packer in a department store as part of a government programme. He takes...
release : 1970.10.31popularis : 3.692
Hymn
The story tells of the adoration of Sasuke for his mistress, the blind samisen-teacher Shunkin, who treats him imperiously and subjects him to cruel...
release : 1972.12.29popularis : 1.12
The Possessed
Oshima, a rich girl married Shinzo, and her cousin girl Sawa has been jealous of Oshima deeply. Sawa cursed Oshima so Shinzo could not hold her and...
release : 1976.10.16popularis : 1.236
The Last Song
Junkichi is the son of a rich landlord, while Koyuki is the daughter of a poor lumber worker. The mismatched pair soon finds love, and against his...
release : 1975.12.20popularis : 1.629
Let's Gotokuji
The Gotokuji family has a colossal amount of money. Yuri is a paid housekeeper and sent to this family. While working at the house, she finds a new...
release : 1987.04.11popularis : 1.227
Tree Without Leaves
Haru, an aging scriptwriter, has isolated himself somewhere in the woods of Nagano to work on his first novel. As the last surviving member of his...
release : 1986.11.15popularis : 2.318
The Kingpin of Fair Ladies
A man is inspired to build a hospital after his mother falls ill and becomes a host to swindle money out of women.
release : 1970.09.09popularis : 2.962
Voice Without a Shadow
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...
release : 1958.10.22popularis : 1.331
Location
The melodramatic story of a pink crew’s tragi-comedic adventures on location. A fictionalized adaptation of set photographer Ichiro Tsuda's...
release : 1984.09.22popularis : 2.147
Born Under Crossed Stars
A young man with a strong sense of justice is torn between two girls: the flighty Taneko and the serious Suzuko. With wisdom, courage and honor in a...
release : 1965.08.25popularis : 1.961
Teenage Yakuza
A high-school vigilante protects his community from the extortions of mobsters from a neighbouring city.
release : 1962.06.20popularis : 1.938
Case of the Disjointed Murder
In the summer of 1947, various men and women gather at a mansion in the countryside at the invitation of Kazuma Utagawa. They are artists,...
release : 1977.03.14popularis : 1.989
Blood-Red Water in the Channel
Nikkatsu finally responds to Suzuki's growing discontentment by giving him a bigger budget and a better script. This episodic collection of "real...
release : 1961.10.01popularis : 1.271
Season of Farewell
A touching story of a girl who sails away from her love to keep her family together.
release : 1962.01.14popularis : 0.931
Age of Nudity
The story deals with a juvenile delinquent gang surviving through petty thievery. However, everything gets screwed up when they accidentally steal...
release : 1959.09.07popularis : 1.042
The Strangling
The men who surround and torment the young protagonist (demanding teacher, owner of the company that rapes his own daughter, despotic and...
release : 1979.06.02popularis : 1.695
The Wind-of-Youth Group Crosses the Mountain Pass
On summer vacation, university student Shintaro gets involved with a magic troupe as they travel from festival to festival.
release : 1961.08.27popularis : 1.102
Pigs and Battleships
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.
release : 1961.01.21popularis : 9.448
No Greater Love
In 1943, Japan is amidst the Pacific War. Sobei Sonoda is one of the wealthiest landowners of the San'in region. His land spread for miles, as far as...
release : 1966.09.17popularis : 1.703
The House of the Sleeping Virgins
About an establishment where old men pay to sleep besides young girls that had been narcotized and happen to be naked, the sleeping beauties. The old...
release : 1968.01.31popularis : 1.171
Detonation: Violent Riders
Wild-hearted mechanic boy Iwaki falls in love with the innocent but gang tied Michiko.
release : 1975.09.20popularis : 1.662
Ore wa Ginza no kiheitai
A youth film starring Kōji Wada and Mayumi Shimizu
release : 1960.06.04popularis : 1.716
Living by Karate
Wada Kōji is a chivalrous young man who leads a group of youths that take on a yakuza boss.
release : 1961.04.16popularis : 1.834
The Rambler under the Southern Cross
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...
release : 1961.01.03popularis : 1.539
Showdown in Gangland
Rivalry between two young gangster groups who seek to extend their influence.
release : 1970.03.07popularis : 1.24
Female Prisoner Scorpion: #701's Grudge Song
Nami is once again on the run from the law but is saved by an old classmate who works at a strip club. Through a subsequent conversation they...
release : 1973.12.29popularis : 4.875
Birth of a Fighter
A young boss proves his right to rule his gang.
release : 1967.02.04popularis : 1.571
Smashing the 0-Line
Katiri is a reporter so ambitiously amoral that he’ll sell out anyone—including his partner and the drug dealer he’s sleeping...
release : 1960.06.25popularis : 1.719
The Sleeping Beast Within
When a middle aged salaryman is unknowingly used by drug traffickers he is dishonored and fires back at the Yakuza bosses, with destructive...
release : 1960.04.09popularis : 2.977
Yun’s Town
A Japanese boy in love with a girl of Korean origin must battle the prejudices of those around him in order to sustain the relationship.
release : 1989.06.03popularis : 1.653
The Gambling Monk
One summer day, the chief monk of the Hojuin Temple dies. Harumichi rushes back to town hearing about his brother's death and requests for a grand...
release : 1963.10.13popularis : 2.691
The Rambler Returns Home
Final installment of THE WANDERING GUITARIST series.
release : 1962.08.12popularis : 1.234
Edo Porn
The world-famous woodblock artist Hokusai (1760-1849), a widower in need of a steady income, lives with his daughter Oei in the house of his friend...
release : 1981.09.12popularis : 28.68
Twice on a Certain Night
Poor social conditions badly affect the relationship between a married couple, when the husband, who is desperately searching for work, fails to...
release : 1956.06.08popularis : 1.737
Tora-san, the Go-Between
In Nagasaki, Tora-san and an acquaintance help an old woman who has fallen and injured herself. She invites them to her home where the three share a...
release : 1985.08.03popularis : 1.312
Temptation
Shokichi, the owner of the clothing store, lives with his daughter Hideko and plans to open an art gallery. One day, Hideko led a handsome art...
release : 1957.09.22popularis : 1.042
The Surf
Lonely youth Shinji meets Hatsue, a pretty pearl diver, on the beach and the two fall in love. But Shinji has a rival for Hatsue's affections, Yasuo....
release : 1975.10.10popularis : 2.599
Cleopatra: Queen of Sex
Three people from the future, who travel spiritually to the era of the Egyptian queen Cleopatra VII Philopator and her Roman lovers Julius Caesar and...
release : 1970.09.15popularis : 11.705
Detective Bureau 2-3: A Man Weak to Money and Women
A sequel to Detective Bureau 2-3: Go To Hell Bastards!
release : 1963.07.07popularis : 2.831
Nishi Ginza Station
This short comedy concerns the extramarital affair of a drugstore owner. It is based on a popular song by the star of the film, Frank Nagai.
release : 1958.07.29popularis : 3.408