Joe Shishido
Birthday: 1933-12-06
Place of Birth: Kita, Osaka, Japan
Biography: Beloved Japanese actor most recognizable for his intense, eccentric yakuza film roles and his artificially enlarged cheekbones. He has appeared in some 300 films but is best known in the West for his performance in the cult film Branded to Kill (1967). In Japan, he is also known by the nickname "Joe the Ace" (エースのジョー Ēsu no Jō) for his popular role in the Western Fast-Draw Guy (1961).
Movies
The Alaska Story
A Japanese sailor finds a colony of Eskimos in the Arctic and decides to stay with them. He comes of...
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Tale on Tokai Chivalry
The film is set in Fukagawa in the early Showa period and depicts a fateful confrontation between tw...
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Codename 348 Female Detective Sashiba
Special female detective Hanyu Asuka, codenamed 348 (Sashiba), receives a secret mission from the po...
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Debt King Part VII: Millennium
Takao, the owner of a coffee shop and brother-in-law to Anzai, the assistant manager of Hikari Bank,...
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The Trap
When a hooded stranger appears in private eye 'Mike' Hama's office with the cryptic challenge "I wan...
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JACK KNIFE Wolves' Bet
Kojiro Shimizu challenges the work of Kenzo Kitakata, a popular writer who depicts romance, violence...
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100 Gamblers
Set in Kyushu during the early Showa period, the son of a boss who is killed after a greedy boss tak...
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Love Eternal
A deep mist envelops the port city of Yokohama. The scent of crime is everywhere. As an executive me...
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The Angry Rambler
Fourth installment of Nikkatsu's "Drifter" series, with Kobayashi Akira....
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A Colt Is My Passport
A gang lord hires Kamimura, a hit man, to take out a rival boss who's gotten greedy....
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Cell No. 8
A man and a woman meet through a strange fate. This unique melodrama depicts the course of their bud...
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Branded to Kill
After botching his latest assignment, a third-ranked Japanese hit man becomes the target of another ...
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To Love
Mitsu works in a factory and has a crush on Tsutomu, a young man she met on the Tokyo streets. One d...
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Joe of Aces: Give and Take
Against the bosses of the underworld that dominate Yokohama, Kobe, and Hong Kong, ace Joe, who plays...
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A Night In Nude: Salvation
A beautiful mother and her two daughters run a bar in a town. They have a dream of becoming rich, re...
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Rusty Knife
Udaka is a new, post-war city where corruption has already taken hold. A persistent district attorne...
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Cruel Gun Story
Businessmen arrange the early release from prison of Togawa, serving time for taking revenge on the ...
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Small Rats of the Edo Town
The action of this historical drama takes place against the background of poverty and hunger in the ...
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The Killers
A brilliant hitman and a veteran former hitman join forces to take revenge on the murdered woman and...
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Quick-Draw Joe: Sand Dune Duel
An exciting and fast-paced entertaining action in which G-Man Joe of Aces (Japanese version 007) cha...
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Notorious Bastard
When Tornado Joe is wrongly accused of distributing counterfeit banknotes, he gets on a mission to c...
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Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis
A demonic reincarnation of a Japanese general from the 10th century appears in the early 20th centur...
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Gate of Flesh
In the shady black markets and bombed-out hovels of post–World War II Tokyo, a tough band of prostit...
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Edo Porn
The world-famous woodblock artist Hokusai (1760-1849), a widower in need of a steady income, lives w...
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A Surgeon Named Hitman
A trainee at a university hospital named Yoshioka, was in charge of a patient but the patient dies d...
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Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron
Kumokiri Nizaemon, a former samurai warrior, has abandoned his class to become the leader of a gang ...
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Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards!
Tajima is a private detective in charge of his own company, Detective Bureau 2-3. When warring crimi...
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Fugitive Alien
An alien is pursued as a traitor by his own race because he refuses to kill humans....
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I Are You, You Am Me
9th-graders Kazuo and Kazumi take a tumble at a temple in a small seacoast town in Japan. Through su...
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Detective Office 5
In a small nook of Kawasaki Private investigator 591 and adultry specialist investigator 522 embark ...
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Star Force: Fugitive Alien II
In this second film compiled from episodes of a Japanese TV serial, Captain Joe, reformed interstell...
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Velvet Hustler
A young yakuza hitman named Goro does a job and needs to hideout away from Tokyo for a while. He han...
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Bad Girl Mako
Patronized by a gang ruling the city, Mako delinquently plays around a night club every night with h...
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Greatest Boss Of Japan
A man who became the third boss faces off against delinquent foreigners and villains vying to rule t...
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Massacre Gun
Kuroda is a mob hitman who turns on his employers after being forced to execute his lover. Joining f...
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Ofukuro
Shizuka, Eiichiro, and Mineko, their father and son, live modestly in a certain suburb, leading a dr...
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Exiled to Hell
It is the end of the Taisho era (1912-1926), and at the Hanazuki-tei theatre in Asakusa, the famous ...
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None But the Brave
Story is about how a revolutionist, played by Cheng Pei Pei, taking on the identity of a Captain's (...
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The Final Judgement
26-year-old Shogo Washio sense danger from the expansion of Asian superpower nation Ouran. Shogo Was...
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The Aftermath of War
After World War II life in Japan was hard. There was lawlessness, rapine, never enough food or money...
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Profile of a Boss' Son
Four years ago, Teppei Hondo killed two people from the Shinwa group for the murder of his brother. ...
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New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1
Bunta Sugawara is Miyoshi, a low-level assassin of the Yamamori gang who is sent to jail after a bun...
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Youth of the Beast
When a mysterious stranger muscles into two rival yakuza gangs, Tokyo's underworld explodes with vio...
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I'm All Yours
A beautiful day Rokurou, a student, was to masturbate when a beautiful girl knocks on his door: You ...
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Your Life
A moodo/akushon yakuza picture with heavy emphasis on poignant seishun romance....
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I'll End in Hell
Joji Dan tries to find the heir of a prosperous Japanese millionaire who died in Mexico. However, th...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode
While Hirono is in prison, his rival Takeda turns his own crime organization into a political party,...
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Quick Draw Joe
One day, a lone horseman rides into town with a wounded man strapped behind him. Joe, the Ace, had c...
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Women of the Night - Butterfly Flower
A flower is a woman or a man is a butterfly... Love and melancholy bloom wildly in the nighttime gar...
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Yabanjin no Nekutai
Motozo Imamura, a.k.a. Gen, grew up in an upper-class family, but he never went to school and spent ...
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Go As Messy As Messy Can Be
Comedy about a young man who causes pandemonium by raiding a bar patronized by his father, winning t...
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Asia-Pol
Yang Ming Xuan intercepts a truckload of contraband, but the criminals stage a brazen helicopter att...
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The Crimson Plains
The action takes place in the highlands of the Chugoku region. While the owner of the Yazaki ranch i...
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A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness
A rookie golfer must cope with the stress of fame after a marketing executive transforms her into a ...
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Remembering the Cosmos Flower
Akiko returns to her home village in Japan after seven years in South America, where she contracted ...
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Frankie the Milkman
Roppeita is big in size, clumsy and full of energy. When his grandfather orders him to move out to T...
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Caribe: Symphony of Love
The love story of an architect and a fashion designer in Mexico....
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The Doctor
This movie attempts to present the reality of doctorless villages to society at large, while focusin...
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Crimson pistol belt
Wearing a symbol of justice and brotherhood on his waist – a crimson pistol belt, Ace Joe engages in...
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The Most Terrible Time in My Life
Maiku Hama is a private detective working in Yokohama. Hama comes to the aid of a Taiwanese waiter n...
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The Code
For 60 years, the group of detectives known as "Detective Office 5" has raised the bar for detective...
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The Stairway to the Distant Past
Broke, with his vintage Nash convertible repossessed, private eye Mike Hama is reduced to combing th...
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Asiapol Secret Service
A major international action film filmed on location in Hong Kong, depicting the activities of Asian...
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Drowning Fish
When corporate executives are blackmailed into public displays of nudity on the busy streets of Shin...
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Who is in the Background?
Based on the original work of Yasunori Kawauchi of "Moonlight Mask", this is the second in the "Ginz...
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The Setting Sun
A Japanese soldier is forced to question alliances when he meets and falls in love with the leader o...
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Black Jack: The Visitor in the Eye
Komori Chiaki is a budding tennis student. However, one day while training, her coach hits a ball in...
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Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast
During the fervently nationalist months leading up to World War II, a rebellious teenager is transfe...
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Return of the Vagabond
The 3rd film of the famous "Wataridori" (The Rambler) series from Nikkatsu. The young rambler, Shinj...
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The Rambler Rides Again
In this fifth episode of the "Wataridori" series, Taki Shinji (Kobayashi Akira) drifts north to Hokk...
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Love and Desire in the Night Mist
A film from Nikkatsu's "moodo akushon" (mood/action) subgenre....
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The Rambler on a Pearl Farm
Set in Uwajima, Shikoku, an action film starring Akira Kobayashi who uncovers evils related to pearl...
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Retaliation
Emerging from a stint in prison, yakuza lieutenant Sumukawa discovers that his gang has disintegrate...
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Tsukiyo no kasa
Housewives from four neighboring households casually gather at an old well at Kaneko's house in a re...
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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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Glass-Hearted Johnny
Joe Shishido is an ambitious bike racetrack tout who becomes inadvertently involved in a triangle wi...
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Conflagration
Global South guerrillas hijack the Japanese oil tanker Arabian Light, threatening to blow it up in T...
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Charming Men
One day, when Goro (Kiyoshi Atsumi) returns to his poor tenement house from a trip on a deep-sea tun...
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The Rambling Guitarist
Arriving in the town of Hakodate, a wandering musician, Shinji Taki, is soon recruited by the local ...
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The Notorious Bored Samurai 6
Sawatari Shusui was told about 7,000 ryo of buried gold by Osuke, who claimed to be a princess of th...
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Policeman's Diary
Lending money, job hunting for civilians and babysitting. All these things are usually not listed on...
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Murder Unincorporated
When the mysterious “Joe of Spades” (Jo Shishido) executes one of the bosses of a powerful syndicate...
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Nurse's Husband
“Quit working as a nurse!” “All right, I will!” thus began the married life of Yasuo and Keiko. But ...
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The Happy Dancers
Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Tokyo baka odori" by Haruo Oka and Chiyoko Shimakura....
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Kingorô no omawari-san
Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Wakai omawari-san" by Shiro Sone....
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Called to the Stand
Chief editor Shirou Kanzaka (Hisaya Morishige) of Sankei Publishing Inc. is being tried for embezzle...
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Danger Pays
Joe, Okita, and Serizawa hear of the armed robbery of a truck carrying one billion eighty million ye...
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High Seas Hijack
Terrorists hijack an oil tanker and threaten to blow it up unless Japan meets their demands....
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The Maid's Kid
In order to pay back Mrs. Kajiki for her good deed in the past, Hatsu moves from her village in Akit...
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Tokyo no Kodoku
A coming-of-age story about two newcomers to the world of professional baseball who compete for Rook...
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Ore no sora
Based on the manga of the same name. Originally published in the Japanese magazine Weekly Playboy. I...
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Nozomi Witches
Nozomi is a former actress who moves back to Japan from New Zealand. Upon arriving, she meets her fe...
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Shameless School: Health Check in the Nude
In this outing of Harenchi Gakuen the students undergo a health check after school, but all is not w...
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New Shameless School
Former students of the notorious Harenchi Gakuen college open a new school for dissident youths afte...
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Neo Chinpira: Zoom Goes the Bullet
Junko pretends to be a yakuza and gets more than he bargained for when he is tasked with avenging th...
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The Sea of Genkai
Two yakuza, one of whom frequently reflects on an uncomfortable past taking advantage of Korean wome...
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The Boy Who Came Back
Nobuo is a hot-headed hoodlum fresh out of reform school who struggles to make a clean break with hi...
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Red Crow and the Ghost Ship
A fantastic adventure of a brother and sister flying a ghost ship, guided by a red crow, in search f...
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Tiger of the Sea
A group of pirates sail the treacherous Pacific ocean in search for wealth....
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Okusama wa 18 sai: shinkon kyoshitsu
Laughter is brought about by a teacher-husband and student-wife couple....
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The Dragon and the Tiger
A young gambler returns from prison to find his gang scattered, and many gone over to his old rival....
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The Rambler in the Sunset
The young rambler, Shinji Taki, with his guitar arrives a hot spa town at the foot of Mount Aizu Ban...
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The Guitarist from the Sea
Plans to build a touristic hot spring on the island of Izu Oshima run afoul of the Kobe yakuza group...
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Wind of Volcano
An airplane loaded with 50 million yen for the reconstruction of Amami Oshima crashes en route from ...
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Ryuji, the Gun Slinger
When Ryuji - the Gun Slinger, a drug addict leaves hospital to which he was taken after a gunfight b...
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The Hard Core Criminal
In the 20th century, the Japanese government exploits prisoners as expendable slave laborers in a co...
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A Man's World
Tadao Konno (Yujiro Ishihara) had been staying in Canada for 5 years since his girlfriend's death. S...
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The Naked Woman and the Gun
A Tokyo newspaper reporter goes after the Japanese king of cocaine trafficking but he's tricked by a...
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Blood for Blood
The Akiba and Shimura crime families run the streets of “K City”. With the construction of new build...
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The Rough One
A tale of wannabe yakuza youths. When not cooking up scams with his buddies, Zenkichi develops a cru...
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New Hoodlum Soldier Story: Firing Line
The story is presented as a voiced-over narrative by Arita (Takahiro Tamura), speaking long after th...
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Gambling Code and Feuds
It is the first Toei yakuza film directed by Akinori Matsuo, who was active in Nikkatsu action movie...
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Neo Chinpira 2: Zoom Goes the Bullet
In the sequel to 1990's classic Neo Chinpira, Junko (Sho Aikawa) attempts to take out Kazama and the...
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My Sweetheart
It had been a year and four months since Mitsuo was last on a movie set. Welcomed back by director I...
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The Gun Like Lightning
Sadao, is saved from death at the hands of Goro, a killer belonging to a rival gang by Joji just rel...
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The Man with a Sinister Laugh
After getting out of prison, a young yakuza tries to find out who killed his girlfriend, attempts no...
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The Human Cyclone
The first in the Ginza Whirlwind Child series. A poignant action giant depicting the activities of M...
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Kisaragi
The fanclub of a deceased Japanese idol gather together for the one year anniversary of her death. B...
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Our Wedding
On her wedding day, Makiko is stabbed by a woman in wedding dress. The wound isn't serious but the a...
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The Rambler under the Southern Cross
In the nine part Wataridori series (1959-1962), Kobayashi played a wanderer on Japan’s back roads wi...
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Cat Girls Gamblers: Abandoned Fangs of Triumph
Yukiko is on her way to meet Boss Gunji. Judging by her appearance, no one would suspect that this b...
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You'll Fall For Me
Meet Chika. She thinks she's been jinxed: she's going to be dumped on Christmas Eve. Enter Tomako, w...
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The Dragon of Macao
Ryu (Akira Kobayashi) sets foot on the Yokohama port with a suitcase filled with 300 thousand dollar...
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Blood Shed
Ginjiro was born to a family of nobility, though he yearned for freedom. To earn this freedom, he a...
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Turning Point
A middle-aged journalist looking to make her big break. After working the same beat on the "women's ...
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Blue Jeans Memory
A trio of high school boys get summer jobs at a seaside resort. Soon, however, they learn that the w...
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Shameless School: Tackle Kiss
Students against teachers in the wildest kiss-stealing, petting-orgy ever....
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Shameless School
Comedy of high school where students and teachers run wild, based on a popular comic strip....
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Leave My Girl Alone
Hitomi, a former orphan who is trying to leave behind her delinquent ways, one day agrees to tutor a...
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Sukanpin Walk
Yuji decides to run away from home to become an actor. Along the way, he meets Yoshio, an aspiring r...
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Flower & Snake II
The beautiful Shizuko and her husband Toyama Takayoshi have a loving relationship, But Takayoshi is ...
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Danger Point: The Road to Hell
Killers Ken and Joji undertake the killing of a man named Sakai. He utters some interesting last wor...
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The Champion
Eikichi Yamashiro, who is a former contender for the boxing title, works as a manager at a Club Cham...
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New Prison Walls of Abashiri: High Stakes at Abashiri
Prisoner Katsuji must fend for himself and his prison mates in the fierce battle involving a family ...
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A Hoodlum At The Risk Of His Life
A reporter is framed for murder while investigating organized crime. Upon being released from prison...
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Temptation
Shokichi, the owner of the clothing store, lives with his daughter Hideko and plans to open an art g...
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8 Man - For All Lonely Nights
After Tokyo police officer Yokoda is killed in the line of duty, his chief decides give Yokoda's bod...
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The Guitarist and the Rancher
Rambler Shinji arrives in town armed with nothing but a guitar. With assistance from an old gun-for-...
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Gun Number Zero
Eric, an American, arrives at an international tourist hotel and loses his self-defense Colt. It was...
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Wounded Beast
A tense action game that skillfully intertwines the human love between a criminal, his sister and hi...
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Again
An anthology that embodies the essence of Nikkatsu action films with a stylish flair, this movie fol...
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Joe of Aces: Gambling for a Living
A marine security officer stranded on the ocean in a small boat is rescued by a crew of buccaneers....
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Yakuza Jihad
The first in the "Gokudo Seisen" series, a hard-line action OV that presents the original draft of S...
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Detective Bureau 2-3: A Man Weak to Money and Women
A sequel to Detective Bureau 2-3: Go To Hell Bastards!...
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Mobile Detectives: The Movie 3
Kai, Mei, and Yui are high school students. The three girls are also detectives and they solve cases...
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Tales of a Gunman: The Man Without Tomorrow
The fourth film in the Tales of a Gunman series. When Ryuji throws his pistol into the sea, he is at...
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Fukushu no Teio
Tatsuya Shijo was leading a blissful life with her wife and daughter. But all hell came down when a ...
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Muhō Ichidai
The movie is about a man who started a brothel to make money out of his poor circumstances in the la...
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Gambler in the Sea
Joe, a master diver, explodes his fighting spirit and friendship across raging seas and scorching de...
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Merciless Bullet
Killer Kenji Sasagawa (Odaka) enters the room of a luxurious apartment in the silence of the night a...
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Pacific Porters
Tetsuji Tachibana was fired as a pilot after Jim gave false testimony in an accident caused by Capta...
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Mahjong Demon 3: Extraterritorial Mahjong
Shoichi Sakurai, who started his own trading company and is obsessed with business, is approached wi...
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Fossilized Wilderness
Detective Nishina Sosuke, the director of the Metropolitan Police Department's Investigation Divisio...
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Inochi Shirazu no Rokudenashi
Bastard tablets that hunt down the crooks behind the gambling world of horse racing, bicycle racing,...
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Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis
A demonic reincarnation of a Japanese general from the 10th century appears in the early 20th centur...
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Akai ka to Rokudenashi
An action comedy that depicts two men fascinated by a woman in red high heels who are convinced to c...
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We Live Today
In a fictional mining city in northern Kanto, a Tokyo drifter named Shiro (Ishihara Yūjirō), caught ...
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The Witty Samurai
The story of a timid samurai attempting to rid his name of the stigma attached to it....
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Hell Festival
A master rifleman challenges a family of yakuza who have stolen his favorite gun....
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Tokyo do mannaka
Set in the downtown area in the heart of Tokyo, this film depicts the lives of poor but kind-hearted...
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Nukî uchi ryuji - kênju no otâ
A man who has left the yakuza world is drawn back into the fray for his younger brother in this gunf...
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Modern Yakuza: Chivalry
Zenroku Nichigami, a charismatic con artist, is tasked with collecting a debt from the elusive Shish...
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Switching – Goodbye Me
After his parent's divorce, Kazuo Saito moves with his mother from Onomichi and must leave his girlf...
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Proud Ambition 2
Tatsusaburo Sunagawa, the assistant underboss of the Morita Family, ousts Yukichi Matsuura, Matsuura...
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Proud Ambition
Osaka, 1993. Sunagawa, assistant to the Morita Family underboss, proposes the establishment of a "Co...
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Hometown
Tokiko Haebaru, a 76-year-old grandmother living in Nago, Okinawa. She soon embarks on a marathon ac...
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Alumni Association
The final chapter of director Mukai Hiroshi's trilogy on the theme of aging, in which "Going West" r...
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Proud Ambition 3
Cheating by Kageyama, a member of the Amagasaki Daimon-gumi, is discovered at the gambling den of th...
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Proud Ambition 4
After the retirement of boss Tokumaru, Sunagawa succeeds him as the sixth head of the Morita family,...
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Shin Japan's Don 2: Ruthless
Second film of the yakuza series starring Hiroki Matsukata....
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Proud Ambition 5
Kano Kenji, second-in-command of the Matsuura family, is released from prison and comes into conflic...
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Tale on Kanto Chivalry
This is Akira Kobayashi's first leading role in a gangster film in the ninkyo-eiga genre. Together w...
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Three Stray Dogs
A gripping action film starring Akira Kobayashi, Joe Shishido, and Koji Wada. A man accused of diamo...
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Yakuza Wanderer: Villainous Livelihood
A humorous yakuza action melodrama with gangsters, drugs and that old comedy-standby, white slavery....
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Shibuya Midnight War Dark Street
Shigemitsu Kamio, a member of a Shibuya color-gang who is respected even by other chīmers (delinquen...
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Chivalrous Outlaw
A romantic story about a knight who becomes involved in the murder of his brother's wife and ultimat...
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