Taketoshi Naitō
Birthday: 1926-06-16
Place of Birth: Kokura, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan
Biography: No biography available.
Movies
Sisters
Keiko and Toshiko are sisters who leave their mountain home, where their parents live in a hydroelec...
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Samurai Fiction
A warrior-in-training and his bumbling friends go in pursuit of a stolen sword....
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Fifth Movement
When a broadcasting company takes away its financial support from a symphony orchestra, some of the ...
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Death of a Tea Master
Years after the death of legendary tea master Rikyu, his disciple Honkakubo attempts to resolve the ...
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The Burmese Harp
In Burma during the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier separated from his unit disguises himse...
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The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
Kaji is sent to the Japanese army labeled Red and is mistreated by the vets. Along his assignment, K...
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The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
After the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria. Inte...
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Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons
Ogami Itto is challenged by a quintet of warriors, each armed with one fifth of Ogami's assassin fee...
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The Last Samurai
The film follows the story of Sugi Toranosuke, a ronin, who returns to his home town of Edo many yea...
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Itsudemo yume o
This is a factory area in downtown Tokyo, and Hikaru, nicknamed Pika-chan, is a nurse at the Mihara ...
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Beautiful Calendar
Yajima Sadako is a bright pawnbroker's daughter in the third year of high school. At school, there i...
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Sukeban Deka: The Movie
After the events of the TV series, the 18 year old Yoko Godai has abandoned her special agent Saki A...
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Godzilla 1985
Originally released in Japan as "The Return of Godzilla" in 1984, this is the heavily re-edited, re...
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The Farming of the old times
A documentary made at the very end of the Showa era, looking back at traditional agricultural models...
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Manhunt
A tough prosecutor is falsely accused of theft and goes on the run to clear his name. He is assisted...
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Green Boy
In order to encourage his son who became paralyzed due to a traffic accident, he depicts a former bo...
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The Snow Woman
Two woodcutters spend the night in a mountain lodge after being caught in a snowstorm. A female spir...
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Coup d'Etat
A freestyle biopic of Ikki Kita, the ultranationalist intellectual whose ideas inspired the failed m...
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My Sky (Detective Edition)
Ippei Yasuda, the scion of the Yasuda Zaibatsu who has continued his wandering journey, becomes a de...
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The Shogun's Vault IV: The Gold Mines of Sado
Account magistrate Wakisaka Bizen Mamoru asks Yoshibei, the chief priest of Iriya and Myohoji Temple...
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Cape Ashizuri
Among Yoshimura’s complex and political works, this episodic film, set in the early 1930s, follows t...
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Luminous Moss
A headmaster and a novelist, looking for inspiration, regard a strange natural phenomenon before sha...
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Sun and Stars
It's a thrilling, action-packed entertainer with sparks of men versus villains in an up-and-down tal...
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The Wild Reporter
Seven years ago, Ishimatsu Toshio, a talented radio producer at Zen Nihon Hōsō, witnessed a crazed...
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Gray Sunset
Grandfather Fuyukichi Takano, a former university professor, gets fired from his museum job when he ...
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Summer of the Moonlight Sonata
Two soon-to-be kamikaze pilots stop by a local school near their base to play the piano one last tim...
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My Secret Cache
Sakiko, a young bank teller, has an unhealthy obsession with money. Thieves hold up the bank, kidnap...
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Eight Men to Kill
The third movie following the exploits of bounty hunter Shikoro Ichibei. The theft of almost a half ...
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Teenage Wolf
In the bustle of the city, on the corners of neon streets, the eyes of a wild beast are fixed on a y...
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Safari 5000
A Japanese racing driver for Nissan named Godai (Yujiro Ishihara) have a rivalry with a French driv...
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Kamikaze Taxi
A young foot soldier in the yakuza seeks revenge when his prostitute girlfriend dies after a session...
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MacArthur's Children
In this drama at the end of World War II, the inhabitants of a small Japanese fishing village must c...
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Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 1 - Ghost Story at the Kagamigaike
First film of "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series....
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The Fir Trees Remain
The 21-year-old feudal on Sendai, Tsunamune Date, was prohibited to go out in the daytime for his mi...
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Doterai Man
Business is a game! A theatrical version of the TV drama that became a social phenomenon starring Te...
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A Trap
When her only relative, her elder brother is accused of robbing and murdering an old woman loan-shar...
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The Sands of Kurobe
Kitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps for th...
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Shadow Hunters
The government in Edo era is suffering from a financial crisis. It hires "Kage" to provoke the colla...
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Rebellion of Japan
Suzuko, a woman in her twenties who has a brother with political problems (due to communist reprisal...
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The Possessed
Oshima, a rich girl married Shinzo, and her cousin girl Sawa has been jealous of Oshima deeply. Sawa...
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How Sorrowful
The story of a novelist whose wife is confined in a mental hospital. His love for her drives him to ...
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The Orphaned Geisha
Geisha Yaeko is approached by a samurai who has just returned to Edo while she is painting a picture...
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The Long Death
On January 26, 1948, a robbery of the Teigin bank took place in Tokyo - the criminal poisoned the ba...
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Riot in Gujo
Naoto Ogata plays Sadajiro, a young farmer fighting out the battle of the riot through to the end. S...
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Shogun Assassin
A Shogun who grew paranoid as he became senile sent his ninjas to kill his samurai. They failed but ...
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The Fearless Avenger
Thirsting for revenge, Jokichi rashly attempts to assassinate the evil Chogoro but ends up being cap...
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The Return of Godzilla
After a fishing boat is attacked, the sole surviving crew member realizes it is none other than a re...
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The West Tako Cheerleaders
A boy seeks manhood in joining his school’s militaristic cheer squad....
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Shingo's Ten Duels
The classic tale of the shogun's illegitimate son Aoi Shingo is told in three parts as he strives to...
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Snow Country
This movie is based on an immortal literary work "The Snow Country," a story about a life of geisha ...
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Voice Without a Shadow
Asako, a former telephone operator once heard the voice of a murder suspect which has continued to h...
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Yabure Kabure
Ambitious action drama about a young man living a carefree life of women and money, struggling to cr...
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Shinobi no mono 8: The Three Enemies
[Period Covered: 1570-1573] Towards the end of the Tenmon Era, Shogun Ashikaga`s powers were weaken...
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Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance
Official Shogunate executioner Ogami Itto has been framed for disloyalty to the Shogunate by the Yag...
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A Step
Romantic love story of Russian physician Gusev and Japanese woman Keiko takes place in time of fight...
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Special Boy Soldiers of the Navy
Japanese youngsters enduring hard training in Recruit Camp and then going to Iwo Jima in the last da...
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Suspicion
A car going at 25 mph plunges into the sea at Shinko Harbour, Toyama prefecture. Inside is the local...
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A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land
Onna Hitori Daichi wo Yuku (A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land, Kinuta Production, 1953) was the second...
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Live My Share, Mother
At school, Fumio is good in everything. His cheerful, out-going personality makes him a great favori...
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Solar Eclipse
When bribe money from a rigged election funnels into a dam construction project, collusion, lust, gr...
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The Woman Champion
Fifth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where s...
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The Woman Dicer
Seventh film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where...
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The Woman Gambler's Revenge
Tenth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where s...
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Under the Flag of the Rising Sun
A war widow determined to clear the name of her disgraced husband, who was court-martialed for deser...
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Island of Hell
A scruffy detective investigates the murders of three sisters on a small Japanese island in 1946....
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Portrait of Chieko
Takamura, a poet and sculptor, marries a budding artist named Chieko who dreams of becoming an oil p...
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New Shadow Warriors IV: Jiraika 2
Shippuu (Hayate) appeared suddenly dead. However, he fell into the hands of Sarutobi for due to his ...
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The Fixer
Political fixer Homei Yamaoka's misdeeds come to light, throwing Japanese politics into deadly confu...
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The Night before Pearl Harbor
The last film in the series brings the tale to the doorstep of Pacific War, with the planning of the...
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Darkness at Noon
Police beat a murder confession out of four innocent men who are then sentenced to death. Based on a...
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August without Emperor
Taking the Chilean coup as an example, a group of young officers plan to overthrow the Japanese gove...
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The Saga of Tanegashima
Well before “Shogun” as warring clans were fighting for power throughout Japan, a Portuguese vessel ...
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Hoodlum Priest And The Gold Mint
It’s cross and double-cross in these further adventures of Ryuzen, the wayward priest played by Kats...
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The Shadow of Fear
In the backstreets of Ginza, the boss of a hairdressing salon is found dead, killed by strangulation...
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Mission: Iron Castle
The Shinobi-no-Mono series was so successful that Daiei Studios dipped into the well one more time, ...
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Dojo Breaker
Tomisaburo Wakayama is back with a new take on the classic Yamamoto Shugoro masterpiece “Ame Agaru” ...
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The Magoichi Saga
Lord Oda Nobunaga gains control of nearly all of Japan and tries to enlist the aid of Magoichi and h...
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A Chain of Islands
When a US army sergeant is found drowned in Tokyo Bay, an investigation is launched to determine how...
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Bonds
Tetsuro Haga is a troubled gangster, living under the assumed identity Ise for ten years, to escape ...
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The Betrayal
A naively honorable samurai comes to the bitter realization that his devotion to moral samurai princ...
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Port Arthur
Depicts the bloody siege of the fortress of Port Arthur, one of the most strongly fortified position...
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Gazing at Love and Death
A young girl knows that she is going to die and in this she is supported by the devotion of the boy ...
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Taking the Castle
The Sengoku Era was coming to an end. The monopoly of the ever powerful shogun, Ieyasu Tokugawa, was...
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Miniature
Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha...
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A Design for Dying
Shikiko Oba is nimble with her fingers and teaches dressmaking and designing. Among her pupils are R...
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Third Base
Third is an aimless young man who hangs around with a couple of girls who are amateur hookers. One d...
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Prophecies of Nostradamus
Professor Nishiyama, after studying and interpreting the prophecies of Nostradamus, realizes that th...
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After Life
On a cold Monday morning, a group of counselors clock in at an old-fashioned social services office....
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The Man Who Assassinated Ryoma
The Man Who Assassinated Ryoma is a movie about a haunted blood-thirsty Bakufu officer who might hav...
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Ai Sureba Koso
The film consists of three short stories. Tomiko, the heroine of the first story, "The Flower Girl" ...
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The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
The disturbing story of a physician who conducted the first operation with general anaesthetic, and ...
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The Castle of Sand
Two detectives are tasked to investigate the murder of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a To...
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Tomoshibi
Students in a small rural school love their poor but unconventional teacher Mr. Matsukuma, although ...
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Ten Duels of Young Shingo: Chapter 2
Brings Shingo face to face against Yagyu Tajima, the Shogun’s fencing instructor in a match that cou...
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The Thieves' Who's Who
In the book of the world's greatest rogues, the number one man can only be one person....
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I Want to Be a Shellfish
Television production of I Want to Be a Shellfish. On a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Sh...
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Lucky Dragon No. 5
An ageing fishing boat, Dai-go Fukuryu Maru ("Lucky Dragon No. 5") sets out from the port of Yaizu i...
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Ishigassen
Across the Inagawa River that runs through the center of the village, the children of the two villag...
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Actress
Based on Kakuko Mori's autobiography, about her life and retirement from acting due to her increasin...
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Paper Lantern
A new wave Yakuza film in which Takanori Jinnai plays a young Yakuza suffering from stomach cancer w...
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Ōkuma Shigenobu the great
The biopic of Shigenobu Ōkuma, one of the main Japanese leaders at the turn of the 20th century, a s...
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姑公認未公認、二人の女の妻芝居
The surgeon's mother-in-law plots to have her son's mistress give birth and drive out his wife....
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Kamen no Onna
A touching literary and artistic story about the sadness and pathos of a woman's love, crying in ago...
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Kiriko's Tango
A story of the conflicting friendship and love between two young men over a young girl from a workin...
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Symphony of the Sensual Wife Karuizawa
Etsuko, the wife of the conglomerate Okazaki family, has come to Karuizawa to escape the summer heat...
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Hibi no haishin
Hiroyuki, a married executive, falls madly in love with Ikuko, the mistress of a ruthless jeweler. T...
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Challenge at Dawn
Set in Kawasaki in 1925, Challenge at Dawn is based on the Tsurumi Riot Incident, which actually ocu...
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That Young May Be Eternal
A forbidden love between a young teacher and her student. As a fragile boy’s heart and body are swep...
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