Kei Satō
Birthday: 1928-12-21
Place of Birth: Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima, Japan
Biography: No biography available.
Movies
Onibaba
While her son, Kichi, is away at war, a woman and her daughter-in-law survive by killing samurai who...
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Kwaidan
Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four fol...
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Zatoichi's Vengeance
Zatoichi comes upon a dying man who asks him to give a bag of money to "Taichi". Zatoichi has no ide...
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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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Kuroneko
In the Sengoku period, a woman and her daughter are raped and murdered by soldiers during a time of ...
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Epitaph to My Love
Ishihara Kiyoshi plans to marry the woman he loves, Chiee, a coffee shop girl. After an accident, Ch...
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Violence at Noon
Two young women must come to terms with the fact that a man they're deeply linked to is a murdering ...
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Japanese Godfather: Ambition
An ambitious Kansai yakuza don moves in on Tokyo using financial and political tactics, sparking con...
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Eleven Samurai
The lord of the Oshi fief is killed by his trespassing neighbour, the cruel and despotic Nariatsu, s...
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The Resurrection of the Golden Wolf
A seemingly run-of-the-mill corporate salaryman leads a double life as a vicious criminal by night. ...
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Kaiji: The Ultimate Gambler
Kaiji Ito moves to Japan after graduating from high school. Unable to find a job and frustrated with...
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Magnitude: Bridge to Tomorrow
A drama about a father and his son centered around the Great Hanshin earthquake....
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Hanzo the Razor: The Snare
Against the backdrop of the Edo treasury devaluing currency and driving many into poverty, Hanzo Ita...
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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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Samurai Spy
Years of warfare end in a Japan unified under the Tokugawa shogunate, and samurai spy Sasuke Sarutob...
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Women and Miso Soup
Temari, a geisha, dreams of opening a small restaurant with her little brother....
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Japanese Summer: Double Suicide
A sex-obsessed woman, a suicidal man she meets on the street, and a gun-crazy wannabe gangster becom...
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The Perfect Education
Schoolgirl Kuniko is kidnapped by a middle-aged man Iwazono when she is jogging. He tells her that h...
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I Want To Live Once More: Shinjuku Bus Fire Incident
On the night of August 19, 1980, a bus was set on fire by the vagrant Hirofumi Maruyama at the Shinj...
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The Sword of Doom
Ryunosuke, a gifted swordsman plying his trade during the turbulent final days of Shogunate rule, ha...
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Pleasures of the Flesh
After committing murder, businessman Atsushi is blackmailed into keeping a suitcase of embezzled mon...
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Pitfall
A man wanders into a seemingly deserted town with his young son in search of work. But after a bit o...
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Zatoichi's Conspiracy
Zatoichi, the famed blind swordsman, returns to his home village for the first time in many years. H...
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Akizakura - Cosmos
A touching drama about human life and love A 24-hour probation has been given to a man who should h...
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Evil Spirits of Japan
Murase is a bodyguard of yakuza group. Ochiai is a police officer who once was a student activist. W...
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The Ceremony
Oshima’s magisterial epic, centering on the ambivalent surviving heir of the Sakurada clan, uses rit...
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The Man Who Stole the Sun
A high school science teacher is the butt of all his students' jokes, until their bus is hijacked on...
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The Ninja Hunt
Four ninja are hired to fight against the Shogunate’s plot to abolish the Gamo Clan, the regional ba...
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Sword Devil
Hanpei is a gentle young samurai that loves flowers. One day, he witnesses an old man's quick draw o...
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Inn of Evil
The story takes place in feudal Japan, when any commerce with the rest of the world was strictly pro...
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Cruel Story of Youth
A harsh young man seduces a freeloading young woman and eventually takes advantage of her knack for ...
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Death by Hanging
A Korean man is sentenced to death in Japan but somehow survives his execution, sending the authorit...
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Human
The ship Kaijin Maru is left adrift after losing all means of navigation in a storm. The four people...
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The Crimes of Kiyoshi Ōkubo
Arrested and interrogated by the police for a murder, Kiyoshi Ōkubo remembers his past and ends up c...
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Diary of a Shinjuku Thief
In Tokyo's Shinjuku district, the lives of a young man prone to theft, a young woman he meets at a b...
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The Mosquito on the Tenth Floor
A lower-middle-class policeman lives decadently, chasing cheap beer and girls at the same time he's ...
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Three Resurrected Drunkards
Three students spend their holidays at the seaside where they are mistaken for Koreans, a minority w...
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Band of Ninja
The son of an assassinated feudal lord, in the Muromachi period, attempts to avenge his father's dea...
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Ronin-gai
Near the end of Japanese civil war, several disgraced ronin living in Edo's red light district attem...
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Bored Hatamoto: The Kaga Conspiracy
The crescent shaped scar on his forehead is a license given him by the Shogun to kill anyone he deem...
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Station
A detective goes out of his way to crack the case of a serial killer who specialises in murdering po...
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Devil's Temple
An abandoned temple in the mountains outside of the old capital city of Kyoto is the scene of a fate...
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Secret High School Girl: After School Activity
A banker and a high school girl start a brothel in the snowy countryside of Hokuriko....
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Lost Love
At a seaside city somewhere in the Tohoku area, the corpses of Nozomi, daughter of an affluent famil...
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Day Dream
Loosely based on a 1926 short story by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, the film opens as an artist and a young ...
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The White Tiger Battalion
The Byakkotai was part of Aizu’s four-unit military, set up in the domain’s drive to finalize its mi...
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Hymn to a Tired Man
Zensaku, middle-aged and deaf in one ear, learns that his son's fallen for the daughter of a war off...
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Golden Partners
A motorcycle cop and a freelance photographer, having learned the location of 1 billion yen's worth ...
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My Way
Based on a true story, an elderly woman resiliently spends nine months attempting to retrieve her hu...
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Case of a Young Lord 10: The Mystery of the Spider Lady
Young lord investigates the mysterious death that takes place in the underworld....
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Taboo
Set during Japan's Shogun era, this film looks at life in a samurai compound where young warriors ar...
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Azumi
In war-torn Japan, the Tokugawa Shogun, desperate to restore peace to his people, orders the assassi...
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Super Gun Lady: Police Branch 82
Mika Hino is a sharp-shooting investigator that belongs to the infamous "Gator Branch.” When an exec...
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Homicide
This film tells about the murder of Lieutenant Colonel Aikawa, the head of the Bureau of Military Af...
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Asian Blue: Ukishima-maru Incident
Asian Blue focuses on Koreans brought to Japan to work in forced-labor brigades during World War II...
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Your Life
A moodo/akushon yakuza picture with heavy emphasis on poignant seishun romance....
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A Story from Echigo
A sake factory worker on holiday returns to his home town, where he rapes the wife of one of his co-...
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Where did Sharaku go?
Writer Jippensha Ikku hears Tsutaya Juzaburo, a wholesaler of picture books, mutter on his deathbed,...
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The Curse of the Ghost
About 1786 the doings of a demented lord results in many masterless samurai, including Iyemon (Kei S...
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Irezumi
Otsuya, the daughter of a rich merchant, elopes with her lover Shinsuke, an employee of her father's...
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Erotic Liaisons
A low-key private detective agency in Paris is run by Rie and her partner Kishin, two ex-pats who ti...
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The Whispering of the Gods
Rou has returned to the monastery he was raised in. As he listens to the whispering of the Gods thro...
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The River - Poem of Wrath
A man sets out to search for his brother among the survivors of Hiroshima after an anonymous letter....
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The Killing Game
The second movie of Tôru Murakawa's "Game" trilogy. After making a sensational hit, a hitman has gon...
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Captive's Island
Seeking revenge against the guard who tormented him, a young man returns to the island where he was ...
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Night and Fog in Japan
Long takes and a highly theatrical visual approach combine to form a tense and confrontational look ...
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Harakiri
Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemp...
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The Sun's Burial
In Osaka's slum, capricious folks without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitu...
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Dear Summer Sister
14-year-old Sunaoko travels from Tokyo to Naha, Okinawa, with her father’s young fiancée Momoko in s...
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Live Today, Die Tomorrow!
Michio Yamada, a recent school graduate, is sent to Tokyo to work as a fruit-packer in a department ...
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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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Roadside Stone
The Wayside Pebble is an effective drama about the hardships of a childhood spent with a brusque, co...
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The Inheritance
A dying businessman intends to will his fortune to his three illegitimate children, whose whereabout...
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Choji Snack Bar
Eiji lives a quiet life running a small Izakaya with his wife. He spends his days cooking for and se...
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Dead Angle
Elite college graduates commit perfect financial crimes though loopholes in the law during the 1950s...
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The Notorious Bored Samurai
Mondosuke ventures alone into the land of Nagasaki. There, he encounters young lady named Kinue, the...
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Cold Rice, Osan, Chan
Three stories revolve around independence, a man searching for his wife, and a poor craftsman trying...
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The Third Ninja
Three Iga ninja are on a hunt for Chidoken, a Takeda ninja sent out to assasinate Lord Nobunaga....
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Appassionata
This story is based on the novel "Jo no mai" by Tomiko Miyao which is based on the life of painter S...
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The Paper Crane
A wandering vagrant, Hantaro, risks his life to save a beautiful blind girl and her father from con ...
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Tokyo Trial
One of the major documentaries on a specific chapter in modern Japanese history, this look at the tr...
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Glorious Fights
A young leader of the Yamazaki family of Nagasaki, Takida (Ken Takakura) is an A-bomb survivor. He f...
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The Yagyu Military Art: One Eyed Swordsman
In the fourth film in this exciting series, and the first since losing his left eye, Yagyu Jubei is ...
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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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High Seas Hijack
Terrorists hijack an oil tanker and threaten to blow it up unless Japan meets their demands....
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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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Surgical Designs in Flames
A story of the skilled brain surgeon, Todo, whose talent and ambition are put to test through a seri...
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Yagyu Military Art: Jubei's Redemption
In the fifth installment, Yagyu Jubei must prove the innocence of his family who is suspected of con...
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Duel of Blood and Sand
Frustrated with the bad behavior of his lord, Inaba Yajuro (Otomo) declares that he is leaving the ...
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Yakuza Ladies
When her crime boss husband is sent to prison, a woman assumes control of one of the most powerful g...
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Dioxin from Fish!
A black comedy about a former Rock'n'Roll singer, who becomes the mayor of Tokyo....
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The Execution Game
The third movie in Tōru Murakawa's Game trilogy about a hitman. Narumi is set up by a mysterious wom...
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The Hopi Prophecy
This film describes how the Hopi and Navajo tribes in the southwestern United States have responded ...
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Tokyo Bay
An investigation into a drug smuggler who is assassinated in front of an insurance building sets two...
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Yakuza Graveyard
A police investigator cracks down on yakuza business, but once he realizes the police are in negotia...
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Professional Killers – Assassin's Quarry
An assassin is mistaken for a doctor and threatened by a band of masterless warriors, but they reali...
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Mother
A divorced woman enters a marriage arranged by her mother in exchange for money to save the life of ...
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Chase That Man
The story of the desperate struggle between the police and a large crime syndicate....
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Assignment Cloud
A sequel to the popular "The School of Spies", this film continues the adventures of one of the grad...
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Sasuke and His Comedians
Osaka in the early 1600s, aftermath of the historical Battle of Sekigahara; a group of orphan childr...
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Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai
After a salary-man's fiancée attempts suicide, he recounts his gruesome family history which saw gen...
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Miyamoto Musashi IV: The Duel at Ichijo-ji Temple
In the fourth installment, Musashi's potentially greatest opponent Kojiro jumps in and out of the st...
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Drunkard's Paradise
A father and son are both heavy drinkers. However, the son dies in an accident at a bar, leaving beh...
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Incidental Murders
The daughter of the wealthy Soga family is kidnapped and her fiance is murdered. But the kidnappers,...
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The Yagyu Military Art: Yagyu List
When the country is in peril, Lord Yagyu Tajima summons his son Yagyu Jubei to retrieve the mystical...
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Shimane Prison Riot
Japan, 1948: Hiroki Matsukata stars as a man facing a nine year prison sentence. He incites prisone...
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Japanese Godfather: Conclusion
The three-film saga comes to a conclusion as three leaders of the underworld battle it out to determ...
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The Wicked Reporter 2: The Rebirth of Horserace Betting
The continuing adventures of Matsuzaki, a racing tipster for a sports paper. Matsuzaki befriends a m...
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Cross-Currents
A ryokan maid is on trial for pushing a familiar guest off a cliff to his death. An eager attorney o...
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League of Gangsters
A yakuza is released from prison after serving a long sentence. He immediately sets about creating ...
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The Christian Revolt
In Tokugawa-era (1637) Shimabara, oppressed peasant Christians revolt against the shogunate with the...
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Demon Spies
Deep in the mountains of feudal Japan, a group of children endure cruel and unorthodox training in o...
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The Beast to Die
A policeman is murdered and his gun, stolen, used to commit the next crime. Detective Kashiwagi, who...
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Young Boss
After a yakuza boss is assassinated by a rival, his naval officer son returns home to take over the ...
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Good-for-Nothing
Yoshida's first feature follows the lives of young students against a background of jazz, emptiness ...
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Dear My Love
Too shy to speak out the word of appreciation, too busy to show that you care... Many excuses lie be...
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Flower and Dragon
Kingoro Tamai moves with his wife and son to the port city of Wakamatsu. He organizes the Tamai-gumi...
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The Revolt
When a young soldier is killed while trying to prevent his younger sister, Kaoru, from being sold in...
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Let Him Rest in Peace
A man returns to his seaside roots to confront a yakuza boss. Along the way, he charms young men, so...
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The Imperial Navy
A lavish retelling of the true story of the final voyage and ultimate destruction and sinking of the...
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Bitter End of a Sweet Night
An opportunistic department store clerk gets involved with three women and attempts to manipulate th...
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Last Friends
Following the lives of three college rugby players drafted to serve in the military during WWII. Tho...
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Outlaw: Goro the Assassin
On a cold winter day, Goro Fujikawa (Tetsuya Watari) and Masahiko murder the mob boss of Meishin-Kai...
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The Flower and the Dragon
A story of manly life and the beauty of conjugal love. A story about a man and a woman establishing ...
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Lord Tokugawa Ieyasu
In turbulent 16th-century Japan, the leaders of a minor fief have their child taken from them as a p...
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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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The Strange Tale of Oyuki
A story of Japanese writer Kafu Nagai (1879-1959), a man about sixty with a huge reputation of seduc...
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Naked Ambition
Wicked woman Ogin is a concubine of a powerful feudal lord Tayu. At first Ogin gains power by poison...
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Expelled from the Kanto Mob
In the late Taisho era. Umeshima Jinbei, the president of the Kanto Umeshima Kai, divided the area i...
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Group Burglars Break the Magistrate's Office
Eight villains, former pirates, gather to attack the magistrate's office. They develop a plan and be...
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Flower and Dragon: Duel of the Sea Caves
The sequel of "Flower and Dragon". Kingoro Tamai founded a family in the port of Wakamatsu. He unite...
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Clouds at Sunset
A Japanese soldier deserts his position and travels to a small town on the Sea of Japan to start ove...
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Lone Rebel
Nomi-gumi, who plans to control Tama City, has begun to hurt Takase-gumi. Muraki, an executive, was ...
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Bullet Wound
Yuzo Kayama is an American-Japanese operative working for the US to uncover an arms deal between an ...
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The Tattooed Hitman
The most dangerous hired gun in Kyushu's underworld has managed to trigger a vicious gang war, and n...
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The Great Villains
Psychological noir drama involving the tangled web of a disgraced yakuza, an innocent school girl, a...
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Empire of Passion
In a small Japanese village at the end of the 19th century, a rickshaw driver's wife takes on a much...
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Detective Heiji
Police detective Heiji is assigned to catch the masked Maboroshi gang of robbers who have terrorized...
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Japanese Humanity and Justice
When a mob boss retires under political pressure, his successor and yakuza family are tested to thei...
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I Love You So Much
The Sagami family has been running an Edo-style woodworking shop in downtown Tokyo for generations. ...
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Nezumi Kozo's Edo Adventure
A thrilling and entertaining piece in which Jirokichi, portrayed by Morio Kazama, tackles a major ev...
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Brand of Evil
A Jonan Station detective, Kikuchi, is framed for smuggling drugs and sent to prison. When he is par...
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Procurer of Hell
Tobe is a small-time crook who runs a prostitution business of blonde girls, as well as sells pornog...
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A Killer's Key
Raizô Ichikawa reprises his role as the restaurant-cook-turned-contract-killer in this sequel to Kaz...
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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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The Fir Tree Remains
The Fir Tree Remains | Yamamoto explores the life of Koi Harada, a man wrongfully branded a “traitor...
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