Asao Koike
Birthday: 1931-03-18
Place of Birth: Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
Biography: No biography available.
Movies
Fifth Movement
When a broadcasting company takes away its financial support from a symphony orchestra, some of the ...
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Jidanya
Every day a car accident happens in the city. The involved parties are prey to the settlement agent...
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Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril
Ogami Itto is hired to kill a tattooed female assassin and battles Retsudo, head of the Yagyu clan, ...
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Hot Springs Mimizu Geisha
Many persons visit the hot springs resort to try out Reiko's famous vagina with quivering walls, "th...
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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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The Insect Woman
A woman, Tome, is born to a lower class family in Japan in 1918. The title refers to an insect, repe...
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Ninja Hunt
It's a rare occasion when a noted filmmaker like Yamauchi Tetsuya gets to re-visit a previous film, ...
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Violent Streets
With a Kansai syndicate setting their sights on Tokyo, a former yakuza boss gets dragged back into a...
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Hanzo the Razor: Who's Got the Gold?
Hanzo extracts a confession from a ghost using his assaulting methods, foils thieves, connects with ...
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A Modern Yakuza: Three Decoy Blood Brothers
When a large crime syndicate seeks to invade Gifu's underworld, three brothers and their yakuza fami...
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Zatoichi in Desperation
After accidentally causing the death of an old lady, Zatoichi tries to do right by buying the lady’s...
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Sympathy for the Underdog
A yakuza gang gets driven out of Yokohama by a big gang from Tokyo. They relocate to Okinawa to viol...
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G.I. Samurai
A squadron of Japanese Self-Defense Force soldiers find themselves transported through time to their...
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Swan Lake
The hero, Prince Siegfried, is out riding one day with his friends when he spies amidst swans on a l...
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The Wonderful World of Puss 'n Boots
His goal is to help the weak and defenseless, but his saving a mouse makes him the most wanted in al...
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Rebellion Reward
The film tells about drug trafficking from Vietnam to Tokyo and Okinawa. Tetsuya Watari plays a phot...
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A Certain Killer
A former soldier, reduced to working at a restaurant post-war, becomes a contract killer for the yak...
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I Hate But Love
A celebrity, dissatisfied with his personal and professional lives, impulsively leaves fast-paced To...
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Shogun's Joy of Torture
A young magistrate recalls three tales of heinous crimes committed by women, and the brutal punishme...
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Aesthetics of a Bullet
A small time crook who sells rabbits for a living frequently gets himself into trouble with loan sha...
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The Scarred Crest
A war veteran clashes with a mob boss in this crime saga. When Ryuji returns from the war, he finds ...
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Living Skeleton
A ship is attacked at sea for its cargo by a group of thieves who murder a newlywed doctor and rape ...
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Samon’s Hell Revenge: Unauthorised Jutte Records 4
Samon, who had left his position as a police constable, embarks on a journey. During his travel, he ...
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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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Shameless: Abnormal and Abusive Love
A Japanese woman is raped by her boyfriend day in day out....
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Kanei Command Performance
During the reign of Shogun Iemitsu, a great martial arts tournament was held to determine whether or...
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The Revelation of a Geisha
After the bankruptcy of her foster-father's condom factory, Tamae sets out to make a living on her o...
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Girl Boss Blues - Queen Bee's Challenge
When two Girl Bosses fight each other over territory, their enmity is difficult to solve - they are ...
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The Yoshida School
Coinciding with the LDP presidential election of the entire national public, a masterpiece depicting...
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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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Flowering Maidens
The young yakuza who have arrived in the city are being taught the beauty of work and the pleasure o...
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An Inlet of Muddy Water
A Japanese woman writes down three stories she has witnessed or heard of in her diary, each about th...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics
As Japan gears up for the 1964 Olympic games, the cops start to crack down on the gangs, under press...
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Street Mobster
After serving time, a defiant street thug is incensed to find his town overrun by two yakuza faction...
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Shogun's Ninja
In the middle of the 16th century, Hideyoshi, a power hungry warlord sets out to destroy the Momochi...
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The Black Gambler: The Gambling Syndicate
Place your bets! Koji Himuro (Akira Kobayashi) is a makeout artist with unparalleled gambling skills...
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Newlywed Hell
The wife of a samurai, who was leading a happy life, dies in a fit of wind. On the verge of death, s...
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Inferno of Torture
Japan nineteenth century. High demand for tattooed geisha generates an entire industry for their "pr...
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Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 9 - Ghost Story of the Evening Mist Tower
Ninth film of "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series....
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A Flame at the Pier
A young dockworker who owes his life to his boss becomes embroiled in union activity on the Yokohama...
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Rennyo and His Mother
Rennyo was the key figure responsible for the restoration of Shin Buddhism in Japan, in particular t...
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Lowly Ronin 4: Living Hell
The "lowly ronin" meets a child who is being chased by men that killed his father before his eyes. F...
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Classmates
A story of young students trained to become Kamikaze pilots in World War II....
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Human Torpedoes
Story of loyal sailors giving their lives for their country as human torpedoes towards the end of th...
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The Last Kamikaze
With World War II is coming to its end and Japan nearing defeat, Japanese military leaders step up s...
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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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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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Heiji, the Detective
Famous for his coin tossing when capturing criminals, an Edo detective, Heiji, launches an investiga...
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Three Pretty Devils
A trio of teenage tarts try to earn money through shoplifting and prostitution scams and get into de...
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Withered Tree, the Adventures of Monjiro
Kogarashi Monjiro is a lone samurai who agrees to take responsibility for a murder that his friend c...
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Animal Treasure Island
A Japanese adaption of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island, featuring animals as the majority o...
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The Lost Alibi
Suspense drama about a married salaryman whose affair with one of his co-workers is compromised when...
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Flora on the Sand
One evening, at the Marine Tower observatory, cosmetics salesman Ichiro Iki is drawn into conversati...
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Tokugawa: Woman's Genealogy
A tragic love story involving the 5th Shogun of the Tokugawa dynasty and a woman who became one of h...
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Noboru Ando's Chronicle of Fugitive Days and Sex
Ando on the run, stopping in to service all the women in his life, with a bit of the old ultra-viole...
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The Mud-Spattered Pure Heart
Jiro, a young yakuza, and Mami, a diplomat’s daughter, are two young lovers from different worlds. H...
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Orgies of Edo
Three stories of moral sickness set during Japan’s prosperous Genroku era are told in this bloody fo...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima
Repeatedly beat to a pulp by gamblers, cops, and gangsters, lone wolf Shoji Yamanaka finally finds a...
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Wicked Priest 2: Ballad of Murder
The long awaited second film in the Wicked Priest series is a masterpiece of sword swinging fury as ...
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Bad Girl
Wakae is a 15 year old girl who lived under the same roof with her alcoholic father and stepmom. Her...
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The Fort of Death
The second Bounty Hunter film, when master killer Shikoro Ichibei takes up the cause of a group of f...
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The Machine Gun Dragon
Ryu, a low life thug, along with his mother, steals a shipment of drugs. Now with his machine gun an...
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Eighteen Years in Prison
A former soldier is caught working the black market and sent to prison while his partner escapes and...
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Sex Comedy, Quick on the Trigger
Comedy about a car salesman who invents a condom against premature ejaculation....
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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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Light of Africa
Two semi-slackers with an ultra-intimate friendship work, slack and drink in a freezing Hokkaido tow...
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The Sister Gamblers
Third film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where 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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Main Line to Terror
Akiyama is an intern, disgusted with the noise pollution caused by the bullet trains and the heart a...
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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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Fireflies in the North
Set in the icy wilderness of Hokkaido during the early days of the Meiji era, where the brutal warde...
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Yakuza of the Present
In the roaring 1970s, a man who has left the world of the yakuza to become the owner of a sushi rest...
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Memoir of Japanese Assassinations
This anthology film consists of nine incidents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when assass...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity
In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a new...
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Down with The Big Boss
In pre-war Japan, two members of a large yakuza syndicate instigate a turf war that embroils the hig...
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Red Peony Gambler: Flower Cards Game
The third chapter of the ‘Red Peony Gambler’ saga depicts the happiness and sadness of Red Peony Ory...
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Gambler's Legacy
A yakuza member embarks on a trail of revenge for his murdered boss. Senzo, the successor of the Mit...
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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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Sleepy Eyes of Death 12: Castle Menagerie
Just when you think Kyoshiro's life can't get any stranger, someone starts running around raping and...
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The Geisha
Yokiro was the most successful Geisha house in Western Japan during the first half of the 20th centu...
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Winter's Flower
Kanno is a Yakuza. He had to kill Matsuoka who betrayed their boss. Kanno knew Matsuoka had a 3-year...
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The Sucker's Blunt Dagger
A man aspires to be a big boss but falls in love with a beautiful woman boss....
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Lone Wolf Isazo
Isazo is a traveling gambler and living legend in the world of yakuza, known for his swordsmanship a...
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The Armed Organization
Violent Gang Re-Arms is a rousing tale of friction in yakuza and labor interactions with Koji Tsurat...
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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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Delinquent Girl Boss: Ballad of Yokohama Hoods
The local yakuza gangs dominating the port of Yokohama do not take well the invasion of their territ...
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Love and Crime
A series of short stories about bizarre crimes committed by females in the Meiji, Taisho, and Showa ...
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Whirlpool of Flesh
During the war a university professor meets a girl and marries her. Very soon however, it is apparen...
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The Blazing Valiant
Jo has just come back to Japan for the funeral of his parents, who were killed in tribal warfare in ...
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Horrors of Malformed Men
After escaping from an insane asylum, a medical student assumes the identity of a mysterious dead ma...
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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 Red Silk Gambler
With her first love that unfolded in the battlefield in her heart, and with a short sword and a pill...
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The Story of a Man Among Men
During the Showa era, a young yakuza survives war and injury and rises to become a clan boss with th...
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Great Jailbreak
A group of prisoners attempts to break the Abashiri prison. This film can be considered a sequel to...
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The Killing Machine
Mr. Soh, a righteous man with a cold stare and fists of steel, returns to a lawless post-war Japan i...
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The Gambler's Counterattack
Aiba is a gang boss who has just got out of jail, and finds everything has changed. His old gang has...
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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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The Racketeer Ishimatsu
Action-comedy film featuring the adventures of an itinerant merchant (Hiroki Matsukata) that becomes...
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A Modern Yakuza: Broken Code
A young yakuza soldier is torn between staying in his current life or leaving his family when his bo...
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A Wad of Notes
A lone gambler tries to keep a yakuza family from taking over a festival in Kitakyushu. After away f...
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The Okinawa War of Ten Years
After World War II, when Okinawa was under control of the United States, the local yakuza prospered....
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The Hunter's Diary
Leaving his wife in Osaka, Honda leads a double life in Tokyo – after spending the day as an elite b...
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Aftermath of Battles Without Honor and Humanity
Two Kyushu based yakuza groups are desperate for domaination of the area. When more powerful yakuza ...
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Lefty Fencer
As a child, Okin the one-armed one-eyed swordswoman was disfigured by Lord Daizen-dayu, who was afte...
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Postwar Secrets
Everybody's chasing a diamond in Sadao Nakajima's crime/action/drama. It was a based on a novel by ...
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Zatoichi Challenged
Ichi is staying at an inn when a woman dies. Her dying wish is that Ichi take her son to his father,...
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A Young Female Instructor
A junior high school teacher is raped by several students inside the school....
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The Flower and the Sword
A dangerous mobster threatens the life of a businessman's mother in this thriller. As Ryuji oversees...
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Fight of the Gamblers
Ryuji Oshima, a gambler, kills Saiga in self-defense, and considering himself unfit to lead men, sec...
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The Symbol of a Man
A Japanese intelligence officer faces personal crises in the years preceding the Manchurian conflict...
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The Dragon Crest
A violent story of loyalty and revenge among the many "yakuza" or gambling groups in Japan....
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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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A Thousand and One Nights
Aldin, a vagabond water vendor, embarks of a series of fantastical and tragic misadventures through ...
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Girl Boss Revenge: Sukeban
The Kanto Gypsies, a tough girl gang, hide out from the law in the middle of a disputed gang territo...
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Happiness of Us Alone
The story is of two people. One is deaf, the other deaf and mute. They marry after meeting at a scho...
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Akitsu Hot Springs
Just after WW2, a romance between an innkeeper and a man with tuberculosis unravels near a thermal s...
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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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Japan's Don
A yakuza leader must balance his violent tactics necessary for the rough streets of 1960s Tokyo with...
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Gamblers
Tsuruta is a respected tattoo artist working with comrades Machida and Yamashiro. His former boss, w...
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Throne of Blood
Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who pred...
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The Viper Brothers: Prison Gang 13
Part 3 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short tempered, ...
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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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I Want to Be a Shellfish
On a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Shimizu, a barber as well as a good father and husban...
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Grudge Girls Academy: Serial Murder of Fear!
There are two bizarre rumors spreading about a girls' high school called “Seiwa Joshi Gakuen.” The f...
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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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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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The Insatiable
Yuki Onozaki, who was studying at a Women's College in Tokyo, was originally a young and ignorant gi...
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Kanto Street Peddlers: Royal Temple Duel
The third film in the Kanto Street Peddlers series. Sugawara still plays the same Kanto street peddl...
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