Birthday: 1902-09-15
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Biography: No biography available.
During the 17th Century roving bands of hatamoto were causing trouble in the new capital city of Edo...
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A man gets rid of a cheap pot without knowing it contains a map to a treasure. As word spreads, many...
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In postwar Tokyo, a blunt, alcohol-soaked doctor diagnoses a swaggering young yakuza with tuberculos...
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The second film in the "Suruga yukyoden" series, in which Shintaro Katsu plays Jirocho Shimizu. The ...
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On his release from prison a young yakuza, along with his brother, decides to turn his back on crimi...
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A romantic melodrama about the shifting relationship between Ryosuke and Miki as their precarious em...
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1962 Japanese movie. Remake of Mori's 1942 original movie...
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With one million yen in stolen cash, Kurita plans his escape to Hokkaido with an unwilling bar girl ...
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A story about Kinsaburo Kamiya, who infiltrated the Satsuma clan at the end of the Edo period. Based...
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Director Hiroshi Inagaki's early version of the life and death of famed swordsman Sasaki Kojiro. Ota...
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Kanji is a poor peasant widower who struggles to earn a living for his daughter and himself and to p...
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A bizarre murder at a hot springs resort threatens to disrupt an Edo detective's (Hasegawa) vacatio...
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Jirokichi the Rat is wanted in Edo for robbing the mansions of the rich. While on the run, he falls ...
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The Blue Pearl depicts the interplay between a young man from Tokyo and two ama (pearl divers; liter...
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On the night the shogunate's treasury was breached, the guard Utsugi had already been taken down. Hi...
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Hanakosan (1943, TOHO, MAKINO Masahiro), a thoroughly light and joyful musical comedy, influenced by...
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Fourth film of the Bannai Tarao series starring Chiezo Kataoka...
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A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded...
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Adaptation of the novel by Osaragi Jirō. Again scripted by the legendary Yamanaka Sadao...
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Final installment of the Okochi / Arai / Yamanaka Mito Komon series and just as good as the others (...
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Dai-ni-bu: Aijô ruten: Kiyoshi Saeki directed movie...
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Dai-ichi-bu: Dôkai-wan no rantô - Kiyoshi Saeki directed movie....
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A village struggles to survive when the nearby lake becomes barren of fish....
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A bittersweet love story between yakuza Hiroshi and a married woman Reiko....
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A gangster gets released from prison and has to cope with the recent shifts of power between the gan...
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The conclusion of the story of famed swordsman, Sasaki Kojiro. After surviving a series of daring ad...
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A carpenter, Shigetsugu, learns a lesson of love and humanity from five orphaned children and an aff...
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Two obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast abo...
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In old Edo, Kakunojo (Chiezo), a dandy about town, falls in love with Oichi (Isuzu Yamada), whose me...
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The eldest daughter of a rural family Mon returns home from Tokyo pregnant after an affair with a co...
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This epic depicts the battle between Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen. The focus of the story is th...
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Tomotaka Tasaka's A Pebble by the Wayside (Robo no Ishi), made in 1938 and taken from a Yuzo Yamamot...
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The Opium War is a 1943 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Masahiro Makino. "Ahen senso" in ...
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A group of Japanese soldiers land in Chinese territory. They advance on a village ; one soldier, Nor...
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