1973

Lady Snowblood

8/347

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 but leave her alive. Later her mother ends up in prison with only revenge to keep her alive. She creates an instrument for this revenge by purposefully getting pregnant. Yuki never knows the love of a family but only killing and revenge.

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Lady Snowblood

1972

Wandering Ginza Butterfly

7/15

Gang leader Nami (cult film legend Meiko Kaji) kills a member of a yakuza group and goes away to prison. Upon her release three years later, she’s a shamed woman confined to living in the shadowy world of sex clubs and street gangs. She returns to the city to live with her uncle, a billiard-hall owner, and after befriending pimp and ne’er-do-well Ryuji (Tsunehiko Watase), she gets a job working at a hostess club in the chic Ginza neighborhood, where the expensive shops and neon lights conceal a dark world of crime and sexual slavery. But when a rival gang attempts to muscle in on the club, Nami becomes enmeshed in a violent struggle that forces her to wield a skilled pool cue to defend her uncle’s business, and eventually a short sword to wreak bloody vengeance upon her enemies.

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Wandering Ginza Butterfly

2013

Love or Duty: Samurai Rebellion

7/3

In the Edo period of Japan, a samurai’s life belonged to his lord. On the battlefield or in the home, a loyal samurai must always obey his lord’s commands. This is the tragic story of one such loyal samurai, whose love for his family forced him to make the ultimate choice of disobeying the wishes of his lord.

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Love or Duty: Samurai Rebellion

1973

Female Prisoner Scorpion: Beast Stable

7/63

Following her successful prison break, Scorpion begins this third episode in the series hiding out in a brothel. Her prostitute friend tries to keep her identity secret, but the brothel's madam discovers that Scorpion is the ex-girlfriend of the vice officer who killed her lover.

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Female Prisoner Scorpion: Beast Stable

1970

Stray Cat Rock: Sex Hunter

6/33

Mako and her girl friends enter a dispute with rival street gangsters The Eagles, a band of racist macho pigs led by the evil Baron, who hate half-breeds. When one of the girls start dating a half-breed, they start a terror campaign to take all of them out of town. Mako and her gang fight back, helping their new friend Kazuma find his long gone sister.

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Stray Cat Rock: Sex Hunter

1970

Stray Cat Rock: Delinquent Girl Boss

6/27

A wandering tough biker girl aids a female delinquent gang in their battles against an all-male Seiyu group over a fixed boxing match.

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Stray Cat Rock: Delinquent Girl Boss

1976

Yakuza Graveyard

6/23

A police investigator cracks down on yakuza business, but once he realizes the police are in negotiations with certain factions, he sides with his own syndicate of choice.

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Yakuza Graveyard

1974

Jeans Blues: No Future

8/6

Hijiriko makes off from the bar she works at with money and a car that isn't hers. Meanwhile, Jiro Katagiri is up to no good with his gangster friends and ends up making off with all their ill-gotten gains, much to their disapproval. The two misfits end up meeting after a car crash and soon end up on the road together in (another) stolen car. It's not long before the police take an interest in the crimes, and of course the gangsters are hot on Jiri's heels; meaning the two must scarper across Japan by any means necessary.

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Jeans Blues: No Future

1972

Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41

7/87

After being used and betrayed by the detective she had fallen in love with, young Matsu is sent to a female prison full of sadistic guards and disobedient prisoners.

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Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41

1974

Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance

6/114

Lady Snowblood is caught by the police and sentenced to death for her crimes. As she is sent to the gallows she is rescued by the secret police who offer her a deal to assassinate some revolutionaries.

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Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance

1972

Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion

7/147

After being cruelly set up and deceived by Sugimi, a detective in cohorts with the mob with whom she was whole-heartedly in love, Matsushima’s desire for revenge knows no bounds.

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Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion

1973

Female Prisoner Scorpion: #701's Grudge Song

6/54

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 discover they both have a score to settle with a particular crooked cop. However, Nami has doubts about ever trusting a man.

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Female Prisoner Scorpion: #701's Grudge Song

1972

Wandering Ginza Butterfly: She-Cat Gambler

8/7

Meiko Kaji reprises her role as Nami, a vengeful female gang leader, in the second installment of this high-action series that casts a new actor -- martial arts legend Sonny Chiba -- in the role of Nami's loyal friend Ryuji. This time around, Nami is looking for Hoshiden, the man who murdered her father and shattered her once-hopeful childhood. But living under an assumed name, Hoshiden could stay hidden forever.

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Wandering Ginza Butterfly: She-Cat Gambler

1966

No Greater Love

0/0

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 the eye can see. People treated him with respect. But even the richest must think about the future. One day, he decides to arrange a marriage between his only son, Junkichi and the daughter of an even more powerful family. Sobei, hoping to benefit from this union, soon discovers that his son was in love with a lower class girl.

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No Greater Love

1969

Mini-Skirt Lynchers

0/0

The group led by Teruko was the most famous in the port city of Yokohama. One day, however, a group claiming the same name as Teruko and her group appeared and began extorting them. The group was led by Rosa, who had come from Hayama. Teruko and the others were taken in by Detective Jitsusei on suspicion of extortion, and were even doused with oil. What saved the day was a witness, a runaway daughter named Toshie. Toshie is a half-sister.

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Mini-Skirt Lynchers

1971

Secret Zone of Tokyo

0/0

The third installment of the "Night front line" series. An erotic entertainment action in which two young men come to Tokyo and meet face-to-face with a nocturnal organization that controls women with sex and violence.

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Secret Zone of Tokyo

1970

Blind Woman's Curse

6/56

Akemi is a dragon tattooed leader of the Tachibana Yakuza clan. In a duel with a rival gang Akemi slashes the eyes of an opponent and a black cat appears, to lap the blood from the gushing wound. The cat along with the eye-victim go on to pursue Akemi’s gang in revenge, leaving a trail of dead Yakuza girls, their dragon tattoos skinned from their bodies.

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Blind Woman's Curse

1986

Tree Without Leaves

8/8

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 kin, he intends to chronicle the family he grew up in.

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Tree Without Leaves

1976

Lullaby of the Earth

7/10

The story of an orphan girl, brought up in naive, rustic innocence by an elderly relative, who is suddenly exposed to the brutality, greed and deceptiveness of the outside world when her grandmother dies.

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Lullaby of the Earth

1978

Double Suicide of Sonezaki

7/8

Suicide has long been used as a form of social protest in Japan. In this film, set in 1703, samurai culture is being transformed by the emergence of a new merchant class. Elements of the social contract are beginning to unravel, and some unscrupulous people took undue advantage of these changes before the social order was re-created. In this story, a rich merchant gives his clerk an I.O.U. instead of wages. When the impoverished clerk presents the paper to the merchant at the agreed upon time asking for payment, the man flies into a rage and pretends he never wrote it and claims the clerk is trying to defraud him. Then he sets his henchmen on the clerk to administer a beating.

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Double Suicide of Sonezaki

1970

Stray Cat Rock: Wild Jumbo

6/22

Wild young people kidnap a wealthy woman and she becomes attracted to one of them. When she tells the man that she is the mistress of a religious leader, he and his posse make plans to rob her partner.

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Stray Cat Rock: Wild Jumbo

1970

Stray Cat Rock: Machine Animal

6/18

Two Japanese men help a Vietnam war deserter escape from Japan for Sweden. They plan to fund the escape by selling LSD pills. After word of the drug deal gets spread around they find themselves fending off rival gangs.

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Stray Cat Rock: Machine Animal

1971

Stray Cat Rock: Beat '71

6/21

The series swansong, Beat '71, sees Kaji framed and sent to prison by her boyfriend's father and with the help of some hippies she strives to be re-united.

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Stray Cat Rock: Beat '71

1974

The Homeless

8/4

Two inmates are simultaneously released from jail, but go their separate ways, only to cross paths again in the nearest brothel. There they make the acquaintance of a would-be prostitute. They help her escape and decide to guide her on her quest for sunken contraband somewhere off the coast.

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The Homeless

1968

Retaliation

6/11

Emerging from a stint in prison, yakuza lieutenant Sumukawa discovers that his gang has disintegrated. An ambitious type, he quickly hooks up with another gang who promise him a prominent position if he helps them deal with a rival family. But bonds are made to be broken, and pledges of loyalty soon give way to competition, betrayal and — naturally — retaliation.

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Retaliation

1995

Onihei's Detective Records

8/1

A criminal syndicate wants detective Onihei dead, but the resolute hero proves to be hard to kill.

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Onihei's Detective Records

1977

Flickering Flames

10/1

In the early hours of April 13th, a five year old hemophiliac child was kidnapped by someone from Tanemura General Hospital in Tokyo, Setagaya. Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department Inspector Kitahara, who received the report, goes quickly to the Tanemura home, along with other police to speak to the family of the child. Then, suddenly, the phone rings. The kidnapper wants money.

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Flickering Flames

1980

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Complete Saga

7/3

The 224-minute compilation edition of Battles Without Honor and Humanity compiles these four movies: Battles Without Honor and Humanity, Deadly Fight in Hiroshima, Proxy War, Police Tactics.

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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Complete Saga

1973

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima

7/59

Repeatedly beat to a pulp by gamblers, cops, and gangsters, lone wolf Shoji Yamanaka finally finds a home as a Muraoka family hitman and falls in love with boss Muraoka's niece. Meanwhile, the ambitions of mad dog Katsutoshi Otomo draws our series' hero, Shozo Hirono, and the other yakuza into a new round of bloodshed.

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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima

1966

Youth A Go Go!

0/0

Kenichi and Satoru join up with three other electric music lovers to form their own band, "The Young and Fresh."

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Youth A Go Go!

1989

Lone Wolf & Child: Assassin on the Road to Hell

6/3

The tale of Ogami Itto and his son Daigoro has come full circle with the greatest sword actor of all time, Wakayama Tomisaburo now playing Lone Wolf's mortal enemy, the evil Lord Yagyu Retsudo, who masterminded Ogami's fall from grace. Brilliant sword actor Takahashi Hideki takes over as the former shogunate decapitator, and his stunning swordsmanship is second to none! The story of Lone Wolf and Child has been told many times, but never before like this. With the magnificent sword skills of Takahashi Hideki as Ogami Itto, the Shogun's Decapitator and Wakayama Tomisaburo as the power hungry Lord Yagyu Retsudo the story has come full circle.

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Lone Wolf & Child: Assassin on the Road to Hell

1975

Main Line to Terror

6/8

Akiyama is an intern, disgusted with the noise pollution caused by the bullet trains and the heart attacks that noise has been causing in older hospital patients, plots to disrupt and, in ten days, destroy a unit of the operation. He warns the Japan National Railway, that, if nothing is done to reduce the noise, he will derail a bullet train. Takigawa is the police detective sent to stop him.

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Main Line to Terror

1965

Song of Farewell

0/0

After her mother's funeral, Yuriko, dressed in mourning clothes, sees off her lover Shintaro as he leaves in the powdery snow, and resolves to part ways with him forever. However, in Yuriko's heart... Pure love duo Yoshinaga and Hamada rigorously pursue a life of sincerity and love of the younger generation, and love but parting, in this lyrical and melancholy touching story of Ishizaka literature.

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Song of Farewell

1966

I'll Never Cry!

0/0

The rehabilitation of a delinquent on leaving reformatory. Her redemption comes through a boy in a wheelchair; by his rehabilitation, growing comes in courage along with her patient, she grows by finding meaning in her own existence. She finally sees a new world before her and has the determination to lead a normal life.

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I'll Never Cry!

1975

New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Head of the Boss

7/12

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 next stage of this continuing drama is the Kanmon Channel where the Owada and the Kyoei groups are battling for territorial rights and drug smuggling. The Owada sends their man, Tetsu, and his friend Shuji to kill the Kyoei boss. With the promise of fame and riches, Shuji takes the fall and goes to jail for 7 years. But when he's released, he discovers that he and Tetsu have been all but forgotten by the Owada. Feeling betrayed, Shuji takes matters into his own hands and becomes an unsuspecting pawn in an internal conflict and an assassination attempt on the Owada boss. And now angered, Shuji seeks revenge...

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New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Head of the Boss

1981

There Was a War When I Was a Child

4/1

An award-winning Japanese film about a child's experiences during the Second World War.

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There Was a War When I Was a Child

1973

Yakuza of the Present

0/0

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Yakuza of the Present

1969

The SAKURA Code

2/1

Cold-blooded obligations and loyalty in the gambler's world.

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The SAKURA Code

2005

Samurai Justice 2: Mother & Daughter

0/0

Master swordsman Akiyama Kohei’s simple life in retirement is jarred into violent sword action when he meets an elderly fencing instructor who may be the target of a group of thieves planning a major armed robbery. At the same time dojo master Daijiro saves the life of man who, although skilled in archery has an aversion to killing and a woman artist comes into town where she is in danger of being raped by one of the thieves. From the pen of noted author Ikenami Shotaro, creator of such classics as Bandit Ve. Samurai, Hunter In The Dark, The Last Samurai, and Hissatsu-The Professional Killers! Brilliant storytelling that leads to superb swordsmanship!

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Samurai Justice 2: Mother & Daughter

2004

Samurai Justice: Assistance in a Duel

0/0

The samurai Akiyama Daijiro is asked to help a young boy who tries to bring the man who murdered his father to justice. In the course of their quest they uncover a plot by one of the clan officials that could change the course of history.

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Samurai Justice: Assistance in a Duel

2015

Bad Girls of Japan

0/0

Are bad girls casualties of patriarchy, a necessary evil, or visionary pioneers? By tracing the concept of the bad girl in Japan as a product of specific cultural assumptions and historical settings, Bad Girls of Japan maps new roads and old detours in revealing a disorderly politics of gender. The essays explore deviancy in richly diverse media. Mountain witches, murderers, performance artists, cartoonists, schoolgirls, and shoppers gone wild are all part of the terrain.

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Bad Girls of Japan

1970

Step on the Gas!

7/1

Yūji, fresh out of prison on parole, meets a stranger named Nao that asks for his assistance...

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Step on the Gas!

1971

Blood For Blood

7/1

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.

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Blood For Blood

1970

Melody of Rebellion

5/1

The disbandment of the Tanno clan left gang member Tetsu to stray from the crime family's fold. He roamed the streets as a one man band, wearing a denim jacket and long hair with sunglasses to cover his piercing eyes. Befriending a like-minded lone wolf by the name of Gebasaku, Tetsu builds a coalition against higher forces. A graphic portrayal of irrepressible anger and a friendship worth dying for.

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Melody of Rebellion

1968

Outlaw: Gangster VIP 2

7/8

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 (Chieko Matsubara), but finds that Yumeko is fatally ill. Although Yukiko was taking care of her, she is pressed for money. Goro wants to help and knows that there is only one way to come up with fast money.

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Outlaw: Gangster VIP 2

1966

The Stormy Man

0/0

A remake of the 1957 classic "Man Who Raised a Storm" with Watari Tetsuya in the title role.

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The Stormy Man

1966

Blood Shed

0/0

Ginjiro was born to a family of nobility, though he yearned for freedom. To earn this freedom, he affiliates himself with the worst of the worst. Swearing his allegiance to the notorious Kuroiwa crime syndicate, the yakuza family known for its thirst for blood, Ginjiro equips for battle. When a rival family raids their gambling parlor, he slashes a masked henchman. Unbeknown to him, his victim was no henchman.

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Blood Shed

1965

The Rule for a Vagabond

0/0

A brave warrior fights to restore peace to a town riddled by crime, one sword at a time, in this historical action saga.

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The Rule for a Vagabond

1980

The Wicked

7/3

A selfish playboy uses rich women to pay off his debts. Divorcing his wife and marrying the woman he loves throws him into a spiral of destruction.

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The Wicked

1967

A Warm Misty Night

0/0

When Toru Sagara (Yujiro Ishihara) returns home from a foreign cargo route, he proposes to his beloved girlfriend Akiko (Ruriko Asaoka). She joyously agrees, promising a life together. On the day they were to be joined in matrimony, Akiko suddenly goes missing. Toru waits hours for her to show, but he is only greeted by the darkness of night. Four years later, his fiancée turns up at a night club in Yokohama with another man.

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A Warm Misty Night

1990

Bounty Hunter Muyonosuke

0/0

Takahashi Hideki stars as Muyonosuke, the one-eyed ronin who makes his living as a bounty hunter who is on a never-ending quest to find the man who murdered his father. The usually aloof Muyonosuke, who never would pause to help the common man winds up befriending an orphan boy and a mysterious woman, and getting involved in a feud between two families, but finds out there is a high power behind the curtain who pulls their strings.

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Bounty Hunter Muyonosuke

1967

The Man of Victory

0/0

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The Man of Victory

1967

Burning Nature

0/0

Film from 1967.

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Burning Nature

2020

The Voice of Sin

7/7

Eiji Akutsu is a newspaper reporter. He is working on unsolved case that took place 30 years ago.The case involved a group of people extorting several companies for money. The group sent cassette tapes to the companies. Eiji Akutsu comes across a mysterious cassette tape. Meanwhile, Toshiya Sone lives in Kyoto and runs a tailor shop. He discovers a cassette tape among his late father's possessions. He plays the cassette tape and hears his voice from his childhood days.

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The Voice of Sin

1990

Magistrate Toyama: Conspiracy of a Beautiful Woman! Rampage in Kanhashu

0/0

The meeting of the two greatest legends in Japan - Magistrate Toyama, the crime-fighting official with the cherry blossom tattoo on his shoulder, and Kunisada Chuji, the yakuza protector of the common man! When a local magistrate is murdered by a group of vagabonds, Toyama is ordered to arrest Kunisada Chuji. In his investigation, he meets Kunisada's wife, who is all too familiar to Toyama, and casts doubt on his guilt. Furthermore, there seems to be a larger conspiracy being carried out...

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Magistrate Toyama: Conspiracy of a Beautiful Woman! Rampage in Kanhashu

1971

The Killer

9/1

A former gang leader and lone wolf who has left the organization works behind the scenes in a new city to take revenge on a giant alliance of organizations. This film is amongst the last "straight" yakuza films made at Nikkatsu before the studio's switch-over to pinku eiga.

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The Killer

1969

Gambler's Dilemma

0/0

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

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Gambler's Dilemma

1968

Lost Virgin

5/1

Story of a nineteen-year-old office girl who loses her virginity.

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Lost Virgin

1971

Onna no Iji

0/0

2 years ago, Kumi broke up with Shuhei and decided to forget everything about him for good. However, after being told that her younger sister, Junko, fall in love with a man and is currently living with him. She was determined to discover who was the man who won her sister's heart. But what will happen when she found out that the man in question is Shuhei, her first love?

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Onna no Iji

2021

What Did You Eat Yesterday?

6/10

Kenji is overjoyed when his usually thrifty boyfriend takes him on a trip to Kyoto for his birthday, but the trip ends up uncovering a painful topic.

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What Did You Eat Yesterday?

1988

Detective Kyosuke Kozu's Murder Reasoning 8

0/0

President Ito, a major apparel maker, was poisoned in the president's office. Kenzo (Baku Ohwada), who happened to be interviewing nearby, rushes to the site. According to his secretary Masae, Ito's ex-wife's younger brother Yoshimoto visited and he started arguing with Ito, but he suddenly escaped. Kenzo asks Kyosuke Kozu (Masaomi Kondo) to investigate. It turns out that Ito's son Takashi, who was killed, is enrolled in Kyosuke Kamizu's university. When Kyosuke Kamizu met at the university, his mother-in-law, Yoko, aimed at his father's fortune and said, "I think he teamed up with designer Kawahara ." Yoko has a relationship with Kawahara, and Ito, who died, was confused because she had an affair with her secretary, Masae. Takashi is said to have already left home and is living on his own.

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Detective Kyosuke Kozu's Murder Reasoning 8

2021

Under the Open Sky

8/29

Mikami, an ex-yakuza of middle age with most of his life in prison, gets released after serving 13 years of sentence for murder. Hoping to find his long lost mother, from whom he was separated as a child, he applies for a TV show and meets a young TV director Tsunoda. Meanwhile, he struggles to get a proper job and fit into society. His impulsive, adamant nature and ingrained beliefs cause friction in his relationship with Tsunoda and those who want to help him.

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Under the Open Sky

1970

The Fearless Brotherhood Duet of Kanto

0/0

The beginning of the Showa period. A town in the Kanto region. During the autumn festival, a car from Daihoji Senzo hit a child and left. Upon hearing this, Shogoro Chiba's boss tried to pay for the medical treatment of Kenbo, but Senzo ordered his child Gentaro to claim damages to the car and ruined Shogoro's gambling house.

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The Fearless Brotherhood Duet of Kanto

2020

My Neighbor's Masala

0/0

Sawaki Tatsuya is a fledgling photographer. He returns to his hometown Fukuoka to take care of his sick father Hideo, but is rejected by his father. Tatsuya meets Jinbo and Yui, who work as mediators between Japan and Nepal. He joins the Nepalese community through them, and while his world expands through these encounters, he also learns of the difficulties of foreigners living in Japan. Shot in the town where many Nepalese actually live, this drama casted authentic epalese as actors. The title “Masala” refers to a mixed spice, and is also used as a metaphor here for the diverse society.

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My Neighbor's Masala

2021

Nezunoban

0/0

In Japan, the passing of a loved one is marked by 'night watch': staying up all night with the deceased, incense burning throughout, to ensure their safe passage to the afterlife.

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Nezunoban

1969

Women's Police

0/0

Around Ginza there is a night-city of bars and cabarets, hostesses, customers. Assisting to keep order here is Kagari (Akira Kobayashi) who specializes in the women, their problems and troubles. He has saved many a girl from blandishments of pimps, makes customers pay up and women play straight. So he is called 'the woman's police-man' and he takes his job seriously. One day, Chiyoko (Yukiyo Toake), a former hostess, comes to him. Her husband has been murdered and she wants help. The man had been a college classmate and Kagari decides to do what he can. In his investigation he overturns a whole nest of intrigue. Men he had thought irreproachable turn out to be corrupt; solid citizens are seen as the worst kind of scoundrels. Until now, Kagari has specialized in women and their problems. But, realizing the real state of affairs, he rolls up his sleeves for a good cleaning- up-at the same time discovering the murderer of his friend.

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Women's Police

1969

The Cleanup

0/0

A real all-star cast turns out for this modern yakuza yarn.

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The Cleanup

1969

Tale of the Last Japanese Yakuza

0/0

Yakuza drama with Meiko Kaji directed by Masahiro Makino

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Tale of the Last Japanese Yakuza

1969

Vermillion Sword: Scabbard Code Sword Amidst the Swirling Cherry Blossoms

0/0

Beginning of the Showa era, Takasaki City in Joshu (Gunma Province). Gambler Inufushi Yoichi continues to lose at Takamasa's gambling house. The authoritative female gambler Ai gives him money and advises him to think seriously about his life. She has to leave Takamasa because of him. She travels to Tomioka for advice from Matsumiya Seiji, who previously helped her. However, the latter is killed due to a conflict with the Kaizu-gumi yakuza family, making his wife Tane a widow...

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Vermillion Sword: Scabbard Code Sword Amidst the Swirling Cherry Blossoms

1970

Cherry Blossoms in the Air - The Suicide Raiders - Oh, Buddies!

0/0

In 1943 Japan is facing defeat. This makes Shinkichi, a straight, selfless student-patriot, ever more restless. He can no longer stand his soft "behind-the- gun" role of munition factory worker. School-mates one after another are going to the front, where he feels he should be. The last straw is an official report of his father's death in the Battle of Attu in the Aleutian Islands. He rushes to the naval air corps training camp at Tsuchiura along with his close school-mates Naito, Yamada, Saito and Tagawa as Volunteer pilot trainees leaving his mother and sweetheart weeping and helpless.

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Cherry Blossoms in the Air - The Suicide Raiders - Oh, Buddies!

1970

A Gangster's Morals

0/0

Yakuza movie directed by Yasuharu Hasebe

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A Gangster's Morals

1968

Confession of a girl: The Forbidden Fruit

0/0

A unique youth masterpiece depicting the awakening of male and female sexuality with a refreshing touch of the breath of youth.

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Confession of a girl: The Forbidden Fruit

2005

Onihei Crime Files Special: Okatsu from Yamabukiya

0/0

Heizo's cousin Senemon Misawa and his son Katsuzo visited Heizo's home. Heizo learns that Senemon has fallen in love with Katsutoshi, a woman who works at the Yamabukiya Tea House, and has asked her to marry him. Heizo decided to visit Yamabukiya, saying "I will try to find out if this woman is a bodhisattva or a demon." After meeting Katsutoshi Heizo, felt embarrassed and ordered Gorozo to inquire about her just in case. Gorozo, in turn, sends secret detective Rihachi to Yamabukiya with the task of keeping an eye on Katsutoshi...

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Onihei Crime Files Special: Okatsu from Yamabukiya

2006

Onihei Crime Files Special: Bandits

0/0

An old thief, Kuhei Sagiwara, used to visit his hometown at the foot of the Kurikara Pass in Kaga Province. Hiding from the rain, he overheard a secret conversation between three men, just like him, hiding from the rain. These three conspired to kill Heizo Hasegawa, the head of the arson and robbery police squad, and the head of these three is the outrageous villain, thief and murderer Jingoro Amikiri...

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Onihei Crime Files Special: Bandits

2007

Onihei Crime Files: Unibrow

8/1

Heizo "The Demon" investigates the shop of Toshimaya the swordsmith, where 280 ryo was stolen and twelve people murdered. This particular group of theives are most dangerous because of the willingness to kill for money, but what about this mysterious unibrow, who is he? What is he up to?

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Onihei Crime Files: Unibrow

2008

Onihei Crime Files: The Inside Woman

8/1

Edo town thief called "Acrobatics boy" has been rampant in town, just that time, spy, Goro of Otaki will see a woman who had been an inside contact of the Yataro by chance. Also, Heizo is worried about the child of Inoue Tatsuizumi, who decided to ask for help for Gen'an.

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2009

Onihei Crime Files: Bungoro Amabiki

8/1

Heizo "The Demon" deals with an arson thief gang known as "Bungoro" the fire thief who leaves a calling card as evidence. As a street notice, showing the thief of Ohno shop, but it is not Bungoro, it's the quick work of a solo member. Heizo Hasegawa with his hands full may have caught a break, it may be a falling out among the thieves.

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Onihei Crime Files: Bungoro Amabiki

1999

Zeno: Unlimited Love

8/1

Zeno: Kagirinaki Ai ni is a movie about life and work of Brother Zenon Żebrowski, a Polish missionary in Japan. Brother Zenon was known for his charity work for victims of war and the poor in Japan.

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Zeno: Unlimited Love

2010

Onihei Crime Files: Sutegoro Takahagi

8/1

Takahagi Sutegoro is highly skilled at casing locations for thieves so that he can sell detailed floor plans to them. He suffers an injury to his leg while trying to help a parent and a child being threatened by samurai. Heizo jumps in and chases the samurai away. Feeling indebted to Heizo, Sutegoro decides to become his spy. Now, together they will try to stop scheming Myogi Danemon’s gang of merciless thieves...

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Onihei Crime Files: Sutegoro Takahagi

2011

Onihei Crime Files: Conscience of a Worm

8/1

Detective Onihei better known as "Heizo the Demon" heads a group of skilled officers, however, one of those special officers got himself into a web of betrayal and deceit, and become the very thing Heizo the Demon investigates daily.

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Onihei Crime Files: Conscience of a Worm

1970

Gambling Den Desire

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In a small town on the Kasumigaura coast in the early Showa period, the Masukawa clan from Tokyo is trying to take away the interests of the local Isetoku family. Setsuko, the adopted daughter of the Isetoku family, falls in love with Seijiro, a travelling raven she meets on a whim. However, Koide, a businessman connected to the Masukawa clan, wants Setsuko to become his mistress... Setsuko puts aside her love and her regrets and bets on the greatest female challenge of her life!

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Gambling Den Desire

1971

Night Butterflies

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A 1971 crime film

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Night Butterflies

1969

Chivalrous Pride

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Chivalrous Pride

1988

The Blue Mountains '88

5/1

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The Blue Mountains '88

1975

Takehisa Yumeji monogatari: koi suru

0/0

Based on the life of artist Yumeji Takehisa

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Takehisa Yumeji monogatari: koi suru

2016

Onihei Crime Files: The Final Zenpen - Gonenme no Kyaku

8/3

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Onihei Crime Files: The Final Zenpen - Gonenme no Kyaku

2016

Onihei Crime Files: The Final Kohen - Unryu Ken

8/2

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Onihei Crime Files: The Final Kohen - Unryu Ken

2007

The Lawyer of Shimane

7/1

The story is set in the Shimane Prefecture, which supposedly has the fewest lawyers in all of Japan. Nakama plays the role of the hard-working and righteous Yamazaki Mizuho, who travels around by bicycle to help her clients.

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The Lawyer of Shimane

1966

Goodbye Mr. Tears

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An American-Japanese girl travels to Japan to find her mother.

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Goodbye Mr. Tears

1968

The Blazing Continent

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A youthful Nikkatsu drama about a Japanese painter who travels to Australia and falls in love.

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The Blazing Continent

1969

Whirlwind Of Love

0/0

A young woman in Hokkaido gets cold feet during her marriage ceremony and runs to Tokyo with her friends.

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Whirlwind Of Love

1966

I Love The Sun

0/0

A coming-of-age drama based on a novel by Kei Moriyama.

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I Love The Sun

1970

A Young Man's Stronghold

0/0

A 1970 juvenile delinquent drama.

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A Young Man's Stronghold

1965

Seishun zenki: Aoi kajitsu

0/0

1965 Nikkatsu youth film.

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Seishun zenki: Aoi kajitsu

1971

Morning Fog

0/0

Kyoko and her mother Yuki returned to their hometown of Fukui. Yuki runs a dressmaker's store in the city, and Kyoko has taken a job as a nurse at a prefectural hospital. The film depicts the daughter's attempt to grow from adolescence to adulthood in a family of one mother and one daughter, and her emotional exchange with her mother against the backdrop of the harsh natural environment.

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Morning Fog

1966

Kill or get killed!

0/0

When Yakuza decides to take avenge his brother, the war shall begin.

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Kill or get killed!

1965

Gambling is My Destiny

0/0

Shadowed and alone. Today, a melancholy guitar sobs in a wandering seaside town.... To make amends, he hides his identity and saves his girlfriend's sister from certain death. Filmed on location on the scenic Manazuru Peninsula, the action is set amidst rugged rocky terrain and raging waves!

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Gambling is My Destiny

2008

The Silent Sword: Loyalty and Honor

9/2

Keinosuke (Masakazu Tamura) is a ronin (wandering samurai) who lives on the streets although he is a nobleman. There’s just one woman in this world that he loves, Shiho (Emi Wakui) but when he meets her again, she is already someone else’s wife. Her husband is a key person in the Chushingura incident. Love reignites between Keinosuke and Shiho but they get caught up in the spiral of fate of the Chushingura incident...

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The Silent Sword: Loyalty and Honor

1970

Greatest Boss Of Japan

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A man who became the third boss faces off against delinquent foreigners and villains vying to rule the underworld in order to develop the port city.

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Greatest Boss Of Japan

1976

Tsuma to onna no aida

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Tsuma to onna no aida

1983

Cold Current

0/0

Set against the backdrop of a bitter power struggle between the faction of the chairman of the board and the faction of the vice-chairman of the board of a large bank, this business mystery explores the lust, suffering and vindictiveness of one of the branch managers caught in the middle of the struggle. The term “cold current” refers to a current in which those who, once in it, find themselves will never emerge.

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Cold Current

1965

Adventure With Him

0/0

Mitsuo Hayama, who is preparing for his entrance examinations, secretly plans to take a trip with his classmate Akira, alone and undisturbed. Noriko learns of the trip by chance and tells Mitsuo and his friends that she will join them, and they reluctantly agree. However, on the day of the trip, Akira suddenly decides not to join. Mitsuo and Noriko, a man and a woman, begin their journey together.

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Adventure With Him

1965

In Tears

0/0

Hiroshi is the second officer on board the Hakuromaru. Lead by his captain, he heads out to town to recruit new crew members for their next voyage. Hiroshi is baffled when his captain approaches the Daigo-Kuroshiomaru crew, a notorious group nicknamed "the hoodlums of the sea". Their offer is greeted with scoffs and quickly turned down.

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In Tears

1965

Showdown in the Red Valley

0/0

Ken Watanabe, a young man from Tokyo, comes to the great plains of Rumo, Hokkaido to see his hometown with his own eyes. Ken, who was entangled in this land's boss Samejima and collapsed, was rescued by Shingo Kazama, a mountain man who works at the quarry. Samejima, who doesn't like Shingo, tries to interfere with Shingo's work...

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Showdown in the Red Valley

1966

Till We Meet Again

0/0

College life starts off great for Michiko. She and her friend join the Italian Culture Research Club that performs canzone, a genre they are both in love with. The only problem is that the club doesn't have enough money to buy instruments for them to play. One day, the two come across a talent show called the "Mari Sono Look-Alike Contest" that promises the winner a cash prize. And Michiko looks a lot like the star.

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1966

Your Life

0/0

A moodo/akushon yakuza picture with heavy emphasis on poignant seishun romance.

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Your Life

1968

The Code of Man

0/0

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

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The Code of Man

1968

Monument to the Girl's Corps

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In 1943, critical developments in the Pacific War have placed Japan at a disadvantage, although the fiery breaths of war hadn't yet reached Okinawa Normal School for women. Nothing seemed the least bit out of the ordinary, as Kazuko and her friends enjoyed a day of sports. A year later the war takes a devastating turn, as US forces plan an amphibious attack known as "Operation Iceberg" on the Ryukyu island.

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Monument to the Girl's Corps

1968

I Shall Not Forget

0/0

Hearing that his friend Yosuke Tsumura had died, Shiro Okabe returned to Kyoto. He felt that Yusuke's wife, Yusuke Tsumura's former love Yuko, knew something about Yosuke's death, but he was unable to find out what she knew. Okabe investigates Yosuke's death, but someone kills the people who provide clues one after another. Okabe follows Rumi, a woman at a bar who was close to Yosuke, to Mt. Hiei, and to his surprise learns that Yosuke is still alive.

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I Shall Not Forget

1969

Women of the Night - Butterfly Flower

0/0

A flower is a woman or a man is a butterfly... Love and melancholy bloom wildly in the nighttime garden! This is a moody entertainment work depicting the love, laughter, melancholy, and human drama of an iron-fisted daughter of a family of expositors who, after her father's death, disbanded her gang and moved to Tokyo by herself, where she becomes a hostess and demonstrates her natural chivalrous temperament, risking her life in the neon-lit Ginza district.

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Women of the Night - Butterfly Flower

1969

Yabanjin no Nekutai

0/0

Motozo Imamura, a.k.a. Gen, grew up in an upper-class family, but he never went to school and spent his days playing around. One day, he walked into an orgy of male-female sexual misconduct, and when he dropped off Roze, whom he had met there, he saw her sister, Kaoru, forgetting her impurity. One day, he went to an orgy where he met Roze, and he could not forget the purity of her older sister, Kaoru. A few days later, Gen went to the party again and was mistaken for the boss's brother.

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Yabanjin no Nekutai

1969

Gokudô Petenshi

0/0

A group of one-hit wonder scam artists led by the troubled "Kanpai," dealing with impotence, embark on a lively and poignant societal comedy. They overturn the distorted trends and authorities of modern society through peculiar methods such as taking over temples and creating fake emerging religions.

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2004

Capone: Roppongi Renkin no Teio

0/0

With the help of the real-life pachislot gambling group "Capone," the film depicts the friendship between a man who gambles and a man who lives in the underworld.

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Capone: Roppongi Renkin no Teio

2006

Oh-Oku: The Women Of The Inner Palace

7/4

The year is Seitoku 2 (1712), and Japan has a new ruler. But Ietsugu, the 7th Tokugawa shogun, is only four years old. The power vacuum this creates has Edo Castle roiling in political intrigue and personal positioning of all kinds.

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Oh-Oku: The Women Of The Inner Palace

1967

Aruhi watashi wa

0/0

The four kinds of love that Yuriko experiences, namely, a childhood longing love, a dream of marriage, a maternal love, and a destined love between parents and children over two generations, as well as the sisterly love between Yuriko and her sister Kaori.

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Aruhi watashi wa

1968

Dorobō Sodachi Dorobōi

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A suspense comedy about thieves starring Kazuo Funaki.

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Dorobō Sodachi Dorobōi

1968

若い川の流れ

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The story follows Misako Kitaoka, a junior college graduate and Nitto Lease sales department employee, as she grows through work, love, and friendship. For the sake of the company's managing director and his wife, Misako recommends her colleague Tensuke Sone to Fusako, the managing director's daughter and best friend. Fusako and Sone meet at the executive director's Karuizawa villa, but for some reason Kensuke becomes angry when he learns that Misako is the one who recommended him...

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若い川の流れ

1969

Inu to Asachan

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A daughter from an island in the Seto Inland Sea takes a job as a nanny in Tokyo. She thrills the hearts of fishmongers and milkmen.

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Inu to Asachan

1966

Love and Desire in the Night Mist

0/0

A film from Nikkatsu's "moodo akushon" (mood/action) subgenre.

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2011

Onihei Crime Files: A Bandit Wedding

0/0

Thieves broke into Yamashiroya, a drug wholesaler, and stole 780 ryo. In the storehouse, there was a sticker with a picture of an umbrella, the signature of Yahei Kasayama, a great thief who once ransacked the entire Kanto region. Heizo Hasegawa (Kichiemon Nakamura), the director of the reform of the thieves, learns that the theft was the work of Yahei's son Yataro (Somegoro Ichikawa [now Koshiro Matsumoto]) and his gang, thanks to the help of a spy named Isaji (Koichi Miura). He learns that Yataro is in the process of marrying Oito (Tomoka Kurokawa), the daughter of Shigezo of Narumi, a great thief from Owari. Heizo learns the true identity of the thread and the evil plans of the second generation Narumi Shigezo (Fuse Hiroshi), and he meets Nagashima no Kugoro (Matsudaira Ken), a former thief who is trying to arrange a marriage deal to return the favor to the previous generation Kasayama and the previous generation Narumi. ) while hiding his identity...

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Onihei Crime Files: A Bandit Wedding

2006

Samurai Justice: The Female Bodyguard

0/0

A chance encounter on the road leads to the unusual need for a female bodyguard to protect the granddaughter of an old friend of Akiyama Kohei, a wealthy merchant who plans to bypass his son-in-law as head of the company. When Daijiro’s wife Mifuyu takes on the job strange things start to happen, including the brutal slaughter of company employees. With the backing of Lord Tanuma, a chief elder on the ruling council, Kohei, Daijiro, and Mifuyu form a plan to foil the kidnappers plot and save the girl from certain death.

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Samurai Justice: The Female Bodyguard

2005

Samurai Justice: A Duel at Takadanobara

0/0

Edo is rocked by the news that a duel to the death is to be held at Takadanobaba, the famed site of a bloody revenge fought by Nakayama Yasubei, who late married into the Ako clan where he was one of the 47 ronin who took vengeance against the vile Lord Kira. This hallowed spot is to host a match between two of the finest swordsmen in Edo. Each is backed by a high ranking direct vassal of the shogun, who had bet their family heirlooms on the outcome. The loser was to commit seppuku and have his clan disbanded. Meanwhile a band of brigands are placing their bets on the fencer who had earlier killed their leader. Can retired master swordsman Akiyama Kohei keep this from becoming a major disaster?

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Samurai Justice: A Duel at Takadanobara

2018

犬神家の一族

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