Kō Nishimura
Kjent for: Acting
Fødselsdag: 1923-01-25
Fødselssted: Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
Også kjent som: Ko Nishimura, Ко Нисимура
Woman of Design
Story of romance and rivalry between two ad agencies vying for the same account with a pharmaceutical firm.
Utgivelse : 1962.01.28Popularitet : 1.77
Shogun and His Mistress 2
In the year 1786, Shogun Ieharu Tokugawa selected beautiful Ochisa to be his concubine. It causes other concubines to become very jealous and mean....
Utgivelse : 1967.11.01Popularitet : 0.703
Lady Snowblood
Yuki's family is nearly wiped out before she is born due to the machinations of a band of criminals. These criminals kidnap and brutalize her mother...
Utgivelse : 1973.12.01Popularitet : 9.696
47 Ronin
Kon Ichikawa's retelling of the classic true story of Samurai honor. When a young clan lord is forced to commit seppuku (ritual suicide), his loyal...
Utgivelse : 1994.10.22Popularitet : 4.122
The Life of a Horse-Trader
Hokkaido at the end of the Taisho era is Kitami. On the day his wife died of a dystocia, Bakuro Yonetaro fell asleep after being kicked by a sick...
Utgivelse : 1963.08.14Popularitet : 1.701
The Bad Sleep Well
In this loose adaptation of "Hamlet," illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within a Japanese corporation and marries the...
Utgivelse : 1960.09.15Popularitet : 10.909
Ninja, A Band of Assassins
Warlord Oda Nobunaga seeks to unite a fractured Japan. A young man trained in the arts of ninjitsu is manipulated by a ninja master into attempting...
Utgivelse : 1962.12.01Popularitet : 3.24
The Burmese Harp
In Burma during the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier separated from his unit disguises himself as a Buddhist monk to escape imprisonment as a...
Utgivelse : 1956.01.21Popularitet : 7.408
High and Low
In the midst of an attempt to take over his company, a powerhouse executive is hit with a huge ransom demand when his servant's son is kidnapped.
Utgivelse : 1963.03.01Popularitet : 17.732
The Wild Sea
Yoji Kitami, a fisherman's son, is a student in Tokyo. His father had died at sea and Taichiro, his brother, is sending him to the university. But...
Utgivelse : 1969.10.15Popularitet : 1.297
Eleven Samurai
The lord of the Oshi fief is killed by his trespassing neighbour, the cruel and despotic Nariatsu, son of the former Shogun. After an investigation,...
Utgivelse : 1967.12.16Popularitet : 4.492
The Invisible Wall
Based on the novel of the same name by Seichô Matsumoto.
Utgivelse : 1958.10.15Popularitet : 0.773
Summer Days Across the River
Set in Tsukuda Island, Tokyo, this drama SP depicts a misunderstanding between an old man with old-fashioned spirit and a young tenant.
Utgivelse : 1973.10.26Popularitet : 2.555
Saigo no totsugeki
A narrative depicting the appearance of soldiers scattered in Rabaul during the Pacific War. The original work of Yoshinori Matsuura was dramatized...
Utgivelse : 1957.01.22Popularitet : 0.632
Useless Creature: Fighting Man's Life
Soft-Boiled Goro is a 1970 film directed by Kazuo Ikehiro
Utgivelse : 1970.11.14Popularitet : 1.295
Quick-draw Okatsu
This film focuses on Okatsu; the adopted daughter of a master swordsman. She is a master with a sword herself and her talents far overshadow that of...
Utgivelse : 1969.04.10Popularitet : 2.346
Stolen Desire
A rumbunctious and ribald tale of a troupe of travelling actors who alternate highlights of kabuki theatre with strip shows.
Utgivelse : 1958.05.20Popularitet : 1.398
The Beauty in the Bathroom
Original work: The second installment of Edogawa Rampage's Inference Masterpiece series, which began airing on Asahi TV in the second half of the...
Utgivelse : 1978.01.07Popularitet : 1.301
Sixteen years old
Senko Tamagawa is a third-year junior high school student, and she is the captain of the badminton club. Her father, Kinzo, remodeled her barn and...
Utgivelse : 1960.10.01Popularitet : 1.187
The Fugitive
An action drama similar to Wyler's "The Desperate Hours", adapted by Seiji Hoshikawa of "Tasogare no Tokyo Tower" based on Shinji Fujiwara's original...
Utgivelse : 1959.03.25Popularitet : 0.948
Hanzo the Razor: Sword of Justice
Fearless Edo-period police inspector Hanzo Itami, nicknamed The Razor, has developed his own unique way of extracting information for his inquiries....
Utgivelse : 1972.12.30Popularitet : 7.167
Hanzo the Razor: Who's Got the Gold?
Hanzo extracts a confession from a ghost using his assaulting methods, foils thieves, connects with Heisuke Takei a friend from his youth, offers...
Utgivelse : 1974.02.09Popularitet : 7.279
Hanzo the Razor: The Snare
Against the backdrop of the Edo treasury devaluing currency and driving many into poverty, Hanzo Itami enforces the law without regard to status. He...
Utgivelse : 1973.08.11Popularitet : 5.901
My Second Brother
The film tells the story of four orphans living in an impoverished mining town. An adaptation of a best-selling book based on the diary of a...
Utgivelse : 1959.10.28Popularitet : 6.762
Intentions of Murder
The neglected common-law wife of a Japanese librarian is repeatedly harassed by a young man with a heart condition who seduces her with the prospect...
Utgivelse : 1964.06.28Popularitet : 3.486
Salaryman Senka
Based on the manga by Sadao Jouji which has been running in the magazine Shukan Gendai since 1969.
Utgivelse : 1995.12.23Popularitet : 1.146
Manhunt
A tough prosecutor is falsely accused of theft and goes on the run to clear his name. He is assisted by the beautiful daughter of a rich man.
Utgivelse : 1976.02.11Popularitet : 2.673
13 Assassins
A sadistic Daimyo (feudal lord) rapes a woman and murders both her and her husband, but even when one of his own vassals commits suicide to bring...
Utgivelse : 1963.12.07Popularitet : 3.564
The Sword of Doom
Ryunosuke, a gifted swordsman plying his trade during the turbulent final days of Shogunate rule, has no moral code and kills without remorse....
Utgivelse : 1966.02.25Popularitet : 10.676
Zatoichi Goes to the Fire Festival
Zatoichi is mentored by the blind leader of a secret organization as he contends with both the Yakuza and a jealous husband.
Utgivelse : 1970.08.12Popularitet : 4.329
Zatoichi the Outlaw
When a local gambling house kidnaps some peasants because they failed to pay their debts, a rival gambling house pays their debts and sets them free.
Utgivelse : 1967.08.12Popularitet : 5.057
Samaritan Zatoichi
Zatoichi is forced to kill a young man who owes a debt to a yakuza boss. Moments later, his sister Osode arrives with the money she earned...
Utgivelse : 1968.12.28Popularitet : 2.645
Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis
The reincarnation of a 10th century Japanese general haunts 1920's Tokyo.
Utgivelse : 1988.01.30Popularitet : 4.908
Samurai Wolf II
Kiba Okaminosuke finds himself entangled with a group of prisoners being transported to their executions, one of whom oddly looks exactly like his...
Utgivelse : 1967.05.13Popularitet : 3.626
Break Down that Wall
A man is wrongfully accused of murder.
Utgivelse : 1959.06.23Popularitet : 1.247
Intimidation
Koreyoshi Kurahara's ingeniously plotted, pocket-size noir concerns the intertwined fates of a desperate bank manager, blackmailed for book-cooking,...
Utgivelse : 1960.03.23Popularitet : 2.434
Escape from Hell
This suspense drama set in the mid 1700's depicts the plan of the Tokugawa rulers to send a number of homeless men to a remote island Sado to perform...
Utgivelse : 1963.01.27Popularitet : 2.366
A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era
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...
Utgivelse : 1957.07.14Popularitet : 2.494
Tsugaru Folksong
A young girl is being asked about a man with whom she was keeping company, as her grandmother plays a lament on a shamisen. Then the focus changes to...
Utgivelse : 1973.12.20Popularitet : 3.679
Black Rose Mansion
A feverishly perverse 1969 film noir oddity starring female impersonator Akihiro Maruyama. When wealthy Kyohei hires transvestite singer "Black Rose"...
Utgivelse : 1969.07.30Popularitet : 3.612
Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees
A mountain man beheads his many wives to prove his love to an alluring woman he meets in an enchanted forest.
Utgivelse : 1975.05.31Popularitet : 6.124
Black Comedy - Ah, Fool
A timid salaryman is the subject of this black comedy.
Utgivelse : 1969.06.14Popularitet : 0.977
Living Skeleton
A ship is attacked at sea for its cargo by a group of thieves who murder a newlywed doctor and rape his wife. Three years later her twin sister is...
Utgivelse : 1968.11.09Popularitet : 3.337
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...
Utgivelse : 1960.10.08Popularitet : 3.147
The Ballad of Narayama
In Kabuki style, the film tells the story of a remote mountain village where the scarcity of food leads to a voluntary but socially-enforced policy...
Utgivelse : 1958.06.01Popularitet : 13.761
Zero Focus
One week into newlywed Teiko Uhara's marriage, her husband, Kenichi, leaves on a short business trip and never returns. Teiko travels across Japan to...
Utgivelse : 1961.03.19Popularitet : 2.655
The Body
The sexual experiences of the passionate Sakiko, from her fling with her boss in her first job to her ending up as a prostitute.
Utgivelse : 1962.11.08Popularitet : 1.607
My Hobo
Story of a resourceful hobo (Kobayashi), a con woman (Takamine) who pretends to be a victim of the Nagasaki A-bomb, and two orphaned children who...
Utgivelse : 1962.11.23Popularitet : 1.19
Cruel Story of the Shogunate's Downfall
A headstrong young man seeks to join the Shinsengumi, but while his determination impresses his superiors, questions begin to arise as to his true...
Utgivelse : 1964.12.12Popularitet : 5.333
A Billionaire
An ethical, young tax collector new to his area encounters increasingly absurd individuals and groups coping with their post-war woes.
Utgivelse : 1954.11.22Popularitet : 1.082
Life of Hishakaku 3
Third part in Tadashi Sawashima's Theater of Life trilogy.
Utgivelse : 1964.03.01Popularitet : 2.069
House of Terrors
A hunchbacked caretaker presides over a forlorn mansion inhabited by the ghosts of his previous masters. An unbelieving trio (a doctor, his assistant...
Utgivelse : 1965.08.01Popularitet : 2.252
The Happy-Go-Lucky Guy
A group of four chorus singers leave their hometown in Kyushu and go to Tokyo to become stars. It’s a musical comedy that shows Segawa’s...
Utgivelse : 1961.12.06Popularitet : 0.904
The Wild Reporter
Seven years ago, Ishimatsu Toshio, a talented radio producer at Zen Nihon Hōsō, witnessed a crazed drug addict murder his wife and then...
Utgivelse : 1959.09.27Popularitet : 1.667
Jack and the Beanstalk
An adventurous young boy named Jack climbs a giant beanstalk to a magical kingdom governed by a greedy, tyrannical giant.
Utgivelse : 1974.07.20Popularitet : 4.566
The Desperate
A noir drama depicting the downfall of a veteran detective who hates evil and falls into its depths. Ace detective Sugai (Oki Minoru) pursues Chiyo...
Utgivelse : 1964.04.18Popularitet : 0.746
Second Generation Young Boss
Takeshi Nanjo, a junior lieutenant in the navy whose father, the head of the Nanjo-gumi yakuza family, was killed, is forced to leave the army and...
Utgivelse : 1969.11.01Popularitet : 1.214
Nutcracker Fantasy
Based off of the novel, "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" and the ballet, "The Nutcracker", Sanrio shows their take on the classic story in a...
Utgivelse : 1979.03.03Popularitet : 2.577
Aces Wild
Keisuke Morita, a man with dark glasses standing on the Shibaura pier, a descendant of an illegitimate descendant left behind in Osaka and a brother...
Utgivelse : 1961.01.09Popularitet : 1.218
Men and War II: Land of Love and Sorrow
Second part of an epic drama of war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of the Godai family from 1935 through Japan's invasion of...
Utgivelse : 1971.06.12Popularitet : 3.978
Fangs of Night
A young doctor discovers that the city hall of records has a record of his death. He and some friends try to seek out the person who reported it, and...
Utgivelse : 1958.01.15Popularitet : 1.853
Free and Easy Special
Approached by a friend about a matchmaking arrangement, Su-san goes to Hama-chan's home seeking help. Hama-chan is away on a business trip, but...
Utgivelse : 1994.07.16Popularitet : 1.967
Wolves of the Night
A unique action drama in which a ruthless yakuza encounters a woman and realizes his true love as the conflict between the yakuza intensifies.
Utgivelse : 1958.10.08Popularitet : 3.324
Hidden Fangs
Set in a juvenile detention center and depicted with a documentary touch.
Utgivelse : 1961.02.08Popularitet : 0.855
Yojimbo
A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the...
Utgivelse : 1961.04.25Popularitet : 12.432
Red Beard
Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his first post after medical school takes him...
Utgivelse : 1965.04.03Popularitet : 11.173
Love and Faith
Sen Rikyu is a ceremonial tea master who advises warlord Hideyoshi in sixteenth-century feudal Japan. His daughter, the beautiful Lady Ogin, has an...
Utgivelse : 1978.06.03Popularitet : 1.592
Gorath
In 1976, a drifting star named Gorath is discovered to be on a collision course with Earth. Although it is smaller than Earth, its enormous mass is...
Utgivelse : 1962.03.21Popularitet : 3.589
Play It Cool
This Japanese melodrama chronicles the exploits of a geisha's beautiful daughter. The daughter is the geisha's pride and she spares nothing to insure...
Utgivelse : 1970.05.01Popularitet : 1.96
The Family
Set in the post-World War II climate of the 1960s in Kobe, the movie explores the struggle for power within the powerful Manpyo family.
Utgivelse : 1974.01.26Popularitet : 1.58
The Singing Gunman
Fourth film in the Aitsu series. The outlaw-cum-travelling guitarist discovers that his friend has been killed by the gangsters who held up the...
Utgivelse : 1967.06.28Popularitet : 1.998
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...
Utgivelse : 1960.04.09Popularitet : 1.786
Sleepy Eyes of Death 5: Sword of Fire
Fifth film in the series. When Kyoshiro, in a moment of weakness, saves the life of a woman being attacked on the road, he quickly finds himself...
Utgivelse : 1965.01.12Popularitet : 5.212
The Old Bear Hunter
After an old man is attacked by a bear in the snowy mountains of northern Japan, he vows to hunt down the marauder.
Utgivelse : 1982.01.25Popularitet : 1.709
Classmates
A story of young students trained to become Kamikaze pilots in World War II.
Utgivelse : 1967.06.03Popularitet : 2.965
Kukai
The life and times of Kûkai, a Japanese monk who studies Esoteric Buddhism in the far reaches of India, China and Tibet, then uses their...
Utgivelse : 1984.04.13Popularitet : 1.514
Express Train
Atsumi Kiyoshi, famous for his role in Torasan, stars as Aoki Goichi, a veteran train conductor who dedicates himself in providing quality service to...
Utgivelse : 1967.06.03Popularitet : 1.28
New Year Trip
A comedy about a good-natured train conductor Shinsaku helping his old friend Miwako find her missing brother.
Utgivelse : 1968.01.03Popularitet : 1.372
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.
Utgivelse : 1961.01.21Popularitet : 6.378
The Song of the Cart
A lifetime story of a woman who stubbornly lives in a poor mountain village in post-war Japan.
Utgivelse : 1959.02.11Popularitet : 1.302
Excursion to Treasure Isle
The story is a dramatization of the Japanese folklore legend of Momotaro, the Peach Boy, who with his trusted companions of dog, monkey and pheasant...
Utgivelse : 1956.07.20Popularitet : 1.738
The Ghost of the One Eyed Man
Japanese horror film directed by Tsuneo Kobayashi.
Utgivelse : 1965.09.04Popularitet : 1.06
The Glamorous Ghost
Based on the novel by Naoki Prize-nominated author Taro Takeshita, a thriller full of black humor. A jealous husband murders his adulterous wife,...
Utgivelse : 1964.10.03Popularitet : 1.118
Tale of Japanese Burglars
Gisuke Hayashida is an illegal dentist during the day and a burglar by night. One night during a burglary he witnesses a train derailment. Some...
Utgivelse : 1965.05.01Popularitet : 2.33
Love in the Mud
This is a story of love between a society girl and a yakuza boy. Mami lives an ordinary life in Tokyo, being with her friends and studying. Her...
Utgivelse : 1977.07.30Popularitet : 1.368
Drunken Ghost
A man meets the spirit of a murdered gangster after he spills alcohol over his grave.
Utgivelse : 1958.08.26Popularitet : 1.599
Tale of a Company Boss 3
A story about the nature of office workers today.
Utgivelse : 1961.11.01Popularitet : 0.84
Bamboo Doll of Echizen
Based on a novel by Tsutomu Mizukami, this haunting melodrama focuses on a young bamboo worker who takes his father's prostitute as his wife.
Utgivelse : 1963.10.05Popularitet : 2.914
Stairs of Evil
Iwao, , Kumagai, and Konishi broke into the safe containing the wages of the employees of Ato Industries and obtained a fortune large enough to live...
Utgivelse : 1965.10.23Popularitet : 1.249
Endless Desire
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...
Utgivelse : 1958.11.18Popularitet : 2.041
Killers on Parade
A vengeful contractor hires a series of young killers to target a woman muckraker. Trouble brews when an amateur marksman shows up his eclectic...
Utgivelse : 1961.02.19Popularitet : 2.629
The Lost Alibi
Suspense drama about a married salaryman whose affair with one of his co-workers is compromised when, returning from a clandestine meeting with his...
Utgivelse : 1960.03.13Popularitet : 1.483
The Blue Beast
Tatsuya Nakadai plays a scheming low-level executive who plays labor against management and uses anyone he can to further his career in this moral...
Utgivelse : 1960.06.26Popularitet : 1.235
Harbor Rats
A scrap iron carrier arrived at Tokyo bay. The ship swarmed with the stevedores, the souvenir seller and the hookers. The crews of ship were...
Utgivelse : 1957.08.21Popularitet : 0.887
To Your Majesty, The Emperor
A conscript from a poor background writes the Emperor asking if he can stay in the army when his service is up.
Utgivelse : 1963.04.28Popularitet : 1.769
Tokyo no Kodoku
A coming-of-age story about two newcomers to the world of professional baseball who compete for Rookie of the Year honors and love.
Utgivelse : 1959.05.12Popularitet : 2.119
Gesshoku
A unique and controversial film directed by Umeji Inoue, based on the original story by Shintaro Ishihara, which depicts the image of a group of...
Utgivelse : 1956.12.19Popularitet : 2.551
Dynamite ni Hi o Tsukero
An action masterpiece about Might Guy Akira, a hot-blooded man who explodes against the backdrop of a large landfill full of intrigue and violence.
Utgivelse : 1959.07.05Popularitet : 2.663
Age of Japanese Guerrillas
Kinta (Nabe Osami) is Japanese by birth, but raised by a Chinese man. He stowsaway to Japan to see his girlfriend Yukiko but gets picked up for...
Utgivelse : 1968.08.30Popularitet : 0.001
Snake Woman's Curse
An old man dies of heartbreak when a cruel landlord is about to repossess his land. The old man haunts the landlord from the grave. Since the man...
Utgivelse : 1968.07.12Popularitet : 4.554
The Retreat from Kiska
In 1943, the Aleutian island of Kiska was fortified by a small contingent of Japanese soldiers. When word arrived of an impending attack by an...
Utgivelse : 1965.07.04Popularitet : 1.43
Seventeen Ninja
This remake of the classic film features the addition of Chiba Shinichi and Natsuyagi Isao as political intrigue reigns supreme. Tadanaga, the...
Utgivelse : 1990.01.01Popularitet : 0.938
The Incident
The body of Sakai Hatsuko, a woman of 23 who has been slain with a knife, has been found in a forest. Some days later, Ueda Hiroshi, a 19-year-old...
Utgivelse : 1978.06.03Popularitet : 1.335
Hokuriku Proxy War
In the setting of the Hokuriku region, where the snow and cold winds rage, for the first time in true-life yakuza film history, director Kinji...
Utgivelse : 1977.02.26Popularitet : 2.071
The Threat
Two escaped criminals who kidnapped a baby break into the house of Misawa, a man who works in an advertising agency and lives quietly with his...
Utgivelse : 1966.02.17Popularitet : 2.642
Gang vs. Gang
The plot opens with the hero (Tsuruta) leaving prison, having served time through taking the blame for a fellow gang member’s crime. However,...
Utgivelse : 1962.07.13Popularitet : 1.51
Tokyo Bay
An investigation into a drug smuggler who is assassinated in front of an insurance building sets two detectives, Sumikawa and Akine, into a sprawling...
Utgivelse : 1962.05.27Popularitet : 1.675
Snow in the South Seas
Japanese soldiers stranded in Manokwari, New Guinea, improvise a theater play to keep their spirits up and endure the extremely difficult conditions.
Utgivelse : 1961.09.29Popularitet : 1.547
Warrior of the Wind
A suspenseful Ninja fantasy based on Shiba Ryotaro's novel, woven with the mysterious fate and romance of Shinzo and a beautiful Princess who find...
Utgivelse : 1964.01.15Popularitet : 2.629
The Bride from Hades
On the night of the summer Obon festival, Hagiwara Shinzaburo meets a beautiful courtesan named Otsuyu. Not knowing she's a ghost, he becomes...
Utgivelse : 1968.06.15Popularitet : 3.359
The Strangling
The men who surround and torment the young protagonist (demanding teacher, owner of the company that rapes his own daughter, despotic and...
Utgivelse : 1979.06.02Popularitet : 1.964
Blind Devotion
Late romance by acclaimed filmmaker Kinugasa Teinosuke.
Utgivelse : 1961.03.08Popularitet : 2.051
Free and Easy 4
Hama-chan and his wife are ecstatic about their long-awaited pregnancy. Meanwhile, Su-san's nephew joins Hama-chan's department at the company.
Utgivelse : 1991.12.23Popularitet : 0.745
Black Lizard
A detective tries to outwit a jewel thief who has kidnapped the daughter of a jeweler to get to an exquisite diamond.
Utgivelse : 1968.07.31Popularitet : 3.664
Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai
After a salary-man's fiancée attempts suicide, he recounts his gruesome family history which saw generations of his ancestors suffer and...
Utgivelse : 1963.04.28Popularitet : 4.395
Down with The Big Boss
In pre-war Japan, two members of a large yakuza syndicate instigate a turf war that embroils the highest echelons of Tokyo's underworld.
Utgivelse : 1979.03.24Popularitet : 2.859
New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Head of the Boss
The seventh in the shocking "Jingi Naki Tatakai" movie series, which exposes the true lives of the yakuza that is hidden by a mask of "jingi". The...
Utgivelse : 1975.11.01Popularitet : 2.118
Fountainhead
A botanist woos the secretary of an industrialist whose company threatens the local water supply.
Utgivelse : 1956.02.26Popularitet : 2.236
The Eagle and the Hawk
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...
Utgivelse : 1957.09.29Popularitet : 1.196
Red Peony Gambler: Gambler's Obligation
A local yakuza boss of a silk farming town shows kindness to the wandering gambler Oryu by letting her stay at his residence. When a rival yakuza...
Utgivelse : 1968.11.22Popularitet : 2.935
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: The Bad Sleep Well
Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "The Bad Sleep Well" (1960).
Utgivelse : 2002.10.25Popularitet : 0.896
The Scarlet Camellia
A young woman begins murdering all those responsible for her ailing father's condition. Because the girl is so outwardly sweet and innocent, the...
Utgivelse : 1964.11.21Popularitet : 1.216
An Impudent Man
Naomasa, the former lord of Okayama Castle and the head of the Iseda family, takes a strange boy, Kirihito, under his wing. However, Naomasa is sent...
Utgivelse : 1964.01.15Popularitet : 1.621
The Temple of Wild Geese
Satoko is a mistress by trade or fate: when her master, the silkscreen artist of the Kohoan Temple in Kyoto, dies, she is given to the temple's...
Utgivelse : 1962.01.21Popularitet : 1.583
Without Complaint
Based on the novel of the same name by Seichô Matsumoto.
Utgivelse : 1975.02.01Popularitet : 0.888
A Killer's Key
Raizô Ichikawa reprises his role as the restaurant-cook-turned-contract-killer in this sequel to Kazuo Mori's stylish 1967 thriller A Certain...
Utgivelse : 1967.12.02Popularitet : 1.625
Rub Out the Past
A lone wolf tries to eliminate a drug-smuggling operation.
Utgivelse : 1966.08.26Popularitet : 1.344
Kyu-chan, Draw Your Sword
A laid-back man tries to become a member of the yakuza.
Utgivelse : 1963.08.31Popularitet : 0.424
Solar Eclipse
When bribe money from a rigged election funnels into a dam construction project, collusion, lust, greed and even murder are on the ballot.
Utgivelse : 1975.09.06Popularitet : 1.703
The Seasons of Love
A family is slowly falling apart: the father is absent from the start, the mother a kept woman thanks to her children, the son is being cheated on by...
Utgivelse : 1958.06.10Popularitet : 1.21
Ryuji, the Gun Slinger
When Ryuji - the Gun Slinger, a drug addict leaves hospital to which he was taken after a gunfight by a notorious killer named Gin of Colt, he is...
Utgivelse : 1960.02.14Popularitet : 0.907
Japanese Godfather: Conclusion
The three-film saga comes to a conclusion as three leaders of the underworld battle it out to determine who will become Don of Japan.
Utgivelse : 1978.09.09Popularitet : 2.142
The Rapacious Jailbreaker
Convicted of murder, Masayuki Ueda is sent to Hiroshima Prison along with his accomplice. But for a man like him, breaking out of prison is easy.
Utgivelse : 1974.12.07Popularitet : 0.936
Tale of Army Brutality
Director Jun'ya Satô's debut film focuses on the inhuman training of recruits, the brutal drill system that reigned in the Japanese army during...
Utgivelse : 1963.06.14Popularitet : 2.411
Refresher Course for Wives
One night, three wives, Matsuyo, Keiko and Mari, receive a mysterious telephone call. The voice tells them that she has their husbands with her and...
Utgivelse : 1961.08.13Popularitet : 2.802
Skyscraper Murder Case
Death stalks a towering hotel under construction in Tokyo and love brings the guilty parties to a justice of their own choice. The motives are...
Utgivelse : 1976.04.03Popularitet : 2.135
The Detective
Detective Muramatsu's wife, Fusae, is killed by a drug addict. After the criminal climbs to the roof of the house with a hostage, Muramatsu shoots...
Utgivelse : 1984.09.22Popularitet : 0.376
The Maid Story
Nine maids serve the household of a writer and his wife. The couple treat their maids like daughters and marry them off to eligible men. So, they are...
Utgivelse : 1963.06.16Popularitet : 1.196
Seven Gamblers
Hanjiro, a one eyed vagrant arrives in Okinoshima to save the town from a violent Yakuza group with the help of six handicapped guys.
Utgivelse : 1966.07.09Popularitet : 2.472
Tale of Ninja Duty
Mumyo Tsunataro killed his betrayed fiance Orie and He flees to Utsunomiya. On his way he happens to saves Chisaka Hyobu's daughter Oyu (She is...
Utgivelse : 1965.02.25Popularitet : 1.898
A Hunter's Diary
Adaptation of "The Lady Killer" by Masako Togawa.
Utgivelse : 1983.03.26Popularitet : 0.584
The Flesh Is Weak
A woman who grew up in a prestigious household, begins to have an affair outside the marriage.
Utgivelse : 1957.10.29Popularitet : 0.527
Lady with Seven Faces
A lovely female thief, and disguise artist, has a great passion for her next big job which she sets up with her right-hand man: She intends to steal...
Utgivelse : 1969.06.21Popularitet : 0.947
Rise Against the Sword
Farmer Abare Goemon is confronted by brigand-like samurai. He raises an army of farmers to fight them and does so brilliantly. When Lord Asakura sees...
Utgivelse : 1966.11.25Popularitet : 0.962
Four Sisters
A story about the lives of four sisters and their manipulative mother who must come to terms with each of their decisions in life.
Utgivelse : 1962.07.01Popularitet : 1.357
Wait for Tomorrow
Kohei Misugi works in a vegetable market, but his ambition is to be a photographer. He is given his first opportunity to demonstrate his talent by...
Utgivelse : 1960.10.26Popularitet : 1.134
Farewell to Southern Tosa
Story of an ex-con trying to go straight, but of course the old ways die hard.
Utgivelse : 1959.08.02Popularitet : 1.863
Lupin the Third: The Mystery of Mamo
Interpol Inspector Zenigata embarks to Egypt in hot pursuit of world's most wanted master thief, Lupin the Third, who is seeking a stone artifact...
Utgivelse : 1978.12.16Popularitet : 14.013
Doggie March
It tells the story of Rock, a puppy whose mother is killed by a tiger and a fox. To fulfill his revenge, will achieve together a large number of...
Utgivelse : 1963.12.21Popularitet : 1.599
One Who Died in Vain
After returning from the Burmese front in WWII, a man finds trouble brewing back home.
Utgivelse : 1986.04.19Popularitet : 1.972
A Man in Red
Takashi, who took the blame when his father shot a gangster, returns home after serving a four-year sentence, only to find it infested with yakuza...
Utgivelse : 1961.09.12Popularitet : 0.921
Nomugi Pass
The story of the silk industry and the young girls who worked as silk spinners in the early 1900s in Japan. The silk mills were located in Okaya...
Utgivelse : 1979.06.30Popularitet : 2.477
The Great Duel
In this gritty tale of gamblers battling in the samurai era, Okawa Hashizo gives perhaps his greatest performance as a gambler returning to his home...
Utgivelse : 1964.09.05Popularitet : 0.954
The Spying Sorceress
Second part of the series where sex magic skills of female and Iga ninjas clash over enourmous treasure of the Toyotomi family, discovered in...
Utgivelse : 1964.12.12Popularitet : 1.688
The Angry Sea
A semi-documentary story about the vicissitudes in the life of an elderly fisherman.
Utgivelse : 1960.10.16Popularitet : 3.741
The Black Hood
A horse-riding samurai fights villains.
Utgivelse : 1981.12.03Popularitet : 1.29
Akitsu Hot Springs
Yoshida’s first big-budget production and colour film is a haunting tale of unrequited love and postwar disillusion. The story of the fatal...
Utgivelse : 1962.06.15Popularitet : 3.346
Lord Tokugawa Ieyasu
In turbulent 16th-century Japan, the leaders of a minor fief have their child taken from them as a political hostage. His mother and his clan endure...
Utgivelse : 1965.01.03Popularitet : 1.379
Goyokin
A guilt-haunted samurai warrior attempts to stop a massacre taking place.
Utgivelse : 1969.05.01Popularitet : 6.253
The Pirates of Buban
By going to the Philippines, Imamura comes to meet people living in an extreme poverty. He discovers very quickly that some communities are under the...
Utgivelse : 1972.01.01Popularitet : 1.558
One Two Punch
Two men succeed in opening a joint restaurant after hilarious troubles.
Utgivelse : 1969.08.09Popularitet : 1.399
The Men Who Made Ultraman
A biographical dramatization about the production of the original Ultraman, the beloved classic special effects fantasy series from Eiji Tsuburaya.
Utgivelse : 1989.03.21Popularitet : 4.167
Who's The Real Killer
Harsh film about a car dealer who gets into financial trouble.
Utgivelse : 1957.07.03Popularitet : 0.92
Japan's Don
A yakuza leader must balance his violent tactics necessary for the rough streets of 1960s Tokyo with the domestic needs of his daughters.
Utgivelse : 1977.01.22Popularitet : 3.62
Flower Cards Chivalry
An absolutely astonishing art house ninkyo yakuza film. Wandering gambler runs into a young swindler woman working with old man. They are both...
Utgivelse : 1967.03.10Popularitet : 1.883
Crimson Wings
At about the same time as lwami, president of a Tokyo company is murdered by an unknown assailant, it happens that an urgent call has been received...
Utgivelse : 1958.12.28Popularitet : 1.916
The Pornographers
Subu makes pornographic films. He sees nothing wrong with it. They are an aid to a repressed society, and he uses the money to support his landlady,...
Utgivelse : 1966.03.12Popularitet : 3.699
The Man Who Wagers Tomorrow
Former boxer Daishiro lost his wife, and his only son, Kaoru, went missing, it was a heavy blow for Daishiro. One day, Daishiro got a call from his...
Utgivelse : 1958.09.02Popularitet : 3.093
Sazen Tange and the Pot Worth a Million Ryo
A re-make of the classic story made for television in 1982.
Utgivelse : 1982.10.22Popularitet : 0.595
Frankie the Milkman
Roppeita is big in size, clumsy and full of energy. When his grandfather orders him to move out to Tokyo to save a sinking milk delivery business a...
Utgivelse : 1956.12.05Popularitet : 1.163
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.
Utgivelse : 1958.07.29Popularitet : 2.045
The Claws of the Divine Beast
Based on a mystery by Taiwanese-Japanese author Chin Shun-shin. After two elderly men in Yokohama quarrel over a Yang dynasty artifact, one of the...
Utgivelse : 1980.06.20Popularitet : 4.299
At the End of the Clouds
A movie that depicts the tragic fate of many Yokaren flight-academy pilots.
Utgivelse : 1953.06.09Popularitet : 1.712
The Call of the Foghorn
A sailor is stuck in harbor due to an engine failure in his boat, and he learns that a friend of his has died, reportedly from suicide. He begins to...
Utgivelse : 1960.07.09Popularitet : 3.001