BÚSQUEDA
1959 Japanese movie
Zattō ni hikarume
A Japanese sailor finds a colony of Eskimos in the Arctic and decides to stay with them. He comes off at a certain moment to look for his luck in the...
The Alaska Story
The film is set in Fukagawa in the early Showa period and depicts a fateful confrontation between two men who rise and fall in a black stream, trying...
Tale on Tokai Chivalry
Codename 348 Female Detective Sashiba
Takao, the owner of a coffee shop and brother-in-law to Anzai, the assistant manager of Hikari Bank, Osaka central branch, is caught in a scam by an...
Debt King Part VII: Millennium
A real all-star cast turns out for this modern yakuza yarn.
The Cleanup
When a hooded stranger appears in private eye 'Mike' Hama's office with the cryptic challenge "I want you to look for me," Hama is drawn into a...
The Trap
The beast that lives in a cool man is awakening now!
Run the Beast
Kojiro Shimizu challenges the work of Kenzo Kitakata, a popular writer who depicts romance, violence and friendships between men! Hard Boiled action...
JACK KNIFE Wolves' Bet
Set in Kyushu during the early Showa period, the son of a boss who is killed after a greedy boss takes over his territory, takes over and takes...
100 Gamblers
A deep mist envelops the port city of Yokohama. The scent of crime is everywhere. As an executive member of a drug trafficking syndicate, Kano is...
Love Eternal
1962 Japanese movie
Kimagure tosei
Fourth installment of Nikkatsu's "Drifter" series, with Kobayashi Akira.
The Angry Rambler
Nuki uchi fūraibō
A gang lord hires Kamimura, a hit man, to take out a rival boss who's gotten greedy.
A Colt Is My Passport
A man and a woman meet through a strange fate. This unique melodrama depicts the course of their budding love in a corner of the big city.
Cell No. 8
早射ち無頼 大平原の男
After botching his latest assignment, a third-ranked Japanese hit man becomes the target of another assassin.
Branded to Kill
Mobile Detectives: The Movie 2
Mitsu works in a factory and has a crush on Tsutomu, a young man she met on the Tokyo streets. One day the two go out, and after some deception,...
To Love
The Frozen Plains
Bored Hatamoto film
Bored Hatamoto: Letter of Death
Against the bosses of the underworld that dominate Yokohama, Kobe, and Hong Kong, ace Joe, who plays an invincible gunman, shows off his transcendent...
Joe of Aces: Give and Take
A beautiful mother and her two daughters run a bar in a town. They have a dream of becoming rich, reforming the building, and living as celebrities....
A Night in Nude: Salvation
Udaka is a new, post-war city where corruption has already taken hold. A persistent district attorney wants to arrest and convict Katsumata, a...
Rusty Knife
Businessmen arrange the early release from prison of Togawa, serving time for taking revenge on the truck driver whose carelessness confined Togawa's...
Cruel Gun Story
The action of this historical drama takes place against the background of poverty and hunger in the city of Edo and depicts young people rebelling...
Small Rats of the Edo Town
A brilliant hitman and a veteran former hitman join forces to take revenge on the murdered woman and challenge the criminal organization.
The Killers
An exciting and fast-paced entertaining action in which G-Man Joe of Aces (Japanese version 007) challenges a terrible international mafia...
Quick-Draw Joe: Sand Dune Duel
When Tornado Joe is wrongly accused of distributing counterfeit banknotes, he gets on a mission to clear his name and challenge the mastermind behind...
Notorious Bastard
The reincarnation of a 10th century Japanese general haunts 1920's Tokyo.
Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis
In the shady black markets and bombed-out hovels of post–World War II Tokyo, a tough band of prostitutes eke out a dog-eat-dog existence,...
Gate of Flesh
The world-famous woodblock artist Hokusai (1760-1849), a widower in need of a steady income, lives with his daughter Oei in the house of his friend...
Edo Porn
A trainee at a university hospital named Yoshioka, was in charge of a patient but the patient dies due to a failure with a heart transplant. One day,...
A Surgeon Named Hitman
Kumokiri Nizaemon, a former samurai warrior, has abandoned his class to become the leader of a gang of thieves. He leads his outlaws in an attempt to...
Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron
Tajima is a private detective in charge of his own company, Detective Bureau 2-3. When warring criminal gangs go overboard by robbing U.S. military...
Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards!
An alien is pursued as a traitor by his own race because he refuses to kill humans.
Fugitive Alien
9th-graders Kazuo and Kazumi take a tumble at a temple in a small seacoast town in Japan. Through supernatural intervention, their minds and bodies...
I Are You, You Am Me
In a small nook of Kawasaki Private investigator 591 and adultry specialist investigator 522 embark on separate investigations that leads them both...
Detective Office 5
In this second film compiled from episodes of a Japanese TV serial, Captain Joe, reformed interstellar marauder Ken and the rest of the crew of the...
Star Force: Fugitive Alien II
A young yakuza hitman named Goro does a job and needs to hideout away from Tokyo for a while. He hangs out with loose women and hard men and always...
Velvet Hustler
Patronized by a gang ruling the city, Mako delinquently plays around a night club every night with her bad company. One night, a guy Hideo gets...
Bad Girl Mako
A man who became the third boss faces off against delinquent foreigners and villains vying to rule the underworld in order to develop the port city.
Greatest Boss Of Japan
Kuroda is a mob hitman who turns on his employers after being forced to execute his lover. Joining forces with his similarly wronged brothers,...
Massacre Gun
Shizuka, Eiichiro, and Mineko, their father and son, live modestly in a certain suburb, leading a dreary but happy life. Eiichiro is troubled by...
Ofukuro
It is the end of the Taisho era (1912-1926), and at the Hanazuki-tei theatre in Asakusa, the famous performance of storyteller Koiso Kikuji and...
Exiled to Hell
Story is about how a revolutionist, played by Cheng Pei Pei, taking on the identity of a Captain's (Ou Wei) long lost sister who is actually dead....
None But the Brave
Hitori tabi
26-year-old Shogo Washio sense danger from the expansion of Asian superpower nation Ouran. Shogo Washio teams up with Kenzo Nakagishi and...
The Final Judgement
After World War II life in Japan was hard. There was lawlessness, rapine, never enough food or money. One girl, raped by three men, called out the...
The Aftermath of War
Four years ago, Teppei Hondo killed two people from the Shinwa group for the murder of his brother. After serving a 3-year prison sentence, he...
Profile of a Boss' Son
Bunta Sugawara is Miyoshi, a low-level assassin of the Yamamori gang who is sent to jail after a bungled hit. While in stir, family member Aoki...
New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1
Moeru minamijūjisei
When a mysterious stranger muscles into two rival yakuza gangs, Tokyo's underworld explodes with violence.
Youth of the Beast
A beautiful day Rokurou, a student, was to masturbate when a beautiful girl knocks on his door: You need a girl? And so begins the story. Rokurou did...
I'm All Yours
A moodo/akushon yakuza picture with heavy emphasis on poignant seishun romance.
Your Life
Joji Dan tries to find the heir of a prosperous Japanese millionaire who died in Mexico. However, the bandits want to take over the inheritance and...
I'll End in Hell
While Hirono is in prison, his rival Takeda turns his own crime organization into a political party, whose two executives stir up new tensions in...
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode
One day, a lone horseman rides into town with a wounded man strapped behind him. Joe, the Ace, had captured one of the bandits who had held up the...
Quick Draw Joe
A flower is a woman or a man is a butterfly... Love and melancholy bloom wildly in the nighttime garden! This is a moody entertainment work depicting...
Women of the Night - Butterfly Flower
Motozo Imamura, a.k.a. Gen, grew up in an upper-class family, but he never went to school and spent his days playing around. One day, he walked into...
Yabanjin no Nekutai
Comedy about a young man who causes pandemonium by raiding a bar patronized by his father, winning the favors of a hostess and ends up feeling the...
Go As Messy As Messy Can Be
Yang Ming Xuan intercepts a truckload of contraband, but the criminals stage a brazen helicopter attack, ruthlessly eliminating their own operatives...
Asia-Pol
Jūdan no arashi
A 1967 crime film
The Return of the Filthy Seven
The action takes place in the highlands of the Chugoku region. While the owner of the Yazaki ranch is away, a gang of villains is trying to take over...
The Crimson Plains
A rookie golfer must cope with the stress of fame after a marketing executive transforms her into a sports celebrity.
A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness
神様のピンチヒッター
Akiko returns to her home village in Japan after seven years in South America, where she contracted AIDS from a blood transfusion. The town, thick...
Remembering the Cosmos Flower
Roppeita is big in size, clumsy and full of energy. When his grandfather orders him to move out to Tokyo to save a sinking milk delivery business a...
Frankie the Milkman
Set in Mexico. The love story of an architect and a fashion designer. Both from Japan
Caribe: Symphony of Love
Sara no hana no toge
Wearing a symbol of justice and brotherhood on his waist – a crimson pistol belt, Ace Joe engages in a fight with villains trying to seize the...
Crimson pistol belt
Maiku Hama is a private detective working in Yokohama. Hama comes to the aid of a Taiwanese waiter named Yang and agrees to track down his missing...
The Most Terrible Time in My Life
For 60 years, the group of detectives known as "Detective Office 5" has raised the bar for detective work. The agents of Detective Office 5 are a...
The Code
Broke, with his vintage Nash convertible repossessed, private eye Mike Hama is reduced to combing the mean streets of the Yokohama waterfront on a...
The Stairway to the Distant Past
A major international action film filmed on location in Hong Kong, depicting the activities of Asian Interpol, the Asian branch of a secret police...
Asiapol Secret Service
When corporate executives are blackmailed into public displays of nudity on the busy streets of Shinjuku, the big guns are called out to locate...
Drowning Fish
Who is in the Background?
A Japanese soldier is forced to question alliances when he meets and falls in love with the leader of the rebel movement.
The Setting Sun
Komori Tiaki is a budding tennis student. However, one day in training her coach hits the ball into her eye accidentally. She is taken to hospital...
The Visitor in the Eye
Namari o buchikome
Chivalrous Pride
During the fervently nationalist months leading up to World War II, a rebellious teenager is transferred to a new primary school in a small Inland...
Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast
The 3rd film of the famous "Wataridori" (The Rambler) series from Nikkatsu. The young rambler, Shinji Taki (Akira Kobayashi), with his guitar arrives...
Return of the Vagabond
In this fifth episode of the "Wataridori" series, Taki Shinji (Kobayashi Akira) drifts north to Hokkaido, where he helps protect an Ainu village from...
The Rambler Rides Again
A film from Nikkatsu's "moodo akushon" (mood/action) subgenre.
Love and Desire in the Night Mist
Set in Uwajima, Shikoku, an action film starring Akira Kobayashi who uncovers evils related to pearl farming.
The Rambler on a Pearl Farm
Emerging from a stint in prison, yakuza lieutenant Sumukawa discovers that his gang has disintegrated. An ambitious type, he quickly hooks up with...
Retaliation
Kigeki: koko kara hajimaru monogatari
Housewives from four neighboring households casually gather at an old well at Kaneko's house in a residential area on the outskirts of Tokyo. If two...
Tsukiyo no kasa
Asako, a former telephone operator once heard the voice of a murder suspect which has continued to haunt her. Years later her husband invites his...
Voice Without a Shadow
Yakyuukyou no Uta
Joe Shishido is an ambitious bike racetrack tout who becomes inadvertently involved in a triangle with a vulnerable prostitute (Izumi Ashikawa) and...
Glass-Hearted Johnny
Global South guerrillas hijack the Japanese oil tanker Arabian Light, threatening to blow it up in Tokyo Bay, unless the Cabinet complies with an...
Conflagration
One day, when Goro (Kiyoshi Atsumi) returns to his poor tenement house from a trip on a deep-sea tuna boat, his neighbor's daughter Haruko (Mitsuko...
Charming Men
Arriving in the town of Hakodate, a wandering musician, Shinji Taki, is soon recruited by the local gang as a hired hand. However, with the arrival...
The Rambling Guitarist
Sawatari Shusui was told about 7,000 ryo of buried gold by Osuke, who claimed to be a princess of the Fujiwara family. Shusui speculates that...
The Notorious Bored Samurai 6
Lending money, job hunting for civilians and babysitting. All these things are usually not listed on a policeman's job description. But for the...
Policeman's Diary
When the mysterious “Joe of Spades” (Jo Shishido) executes one of the bosses of a powerful syndicate, his colleagues, fearing for their...
Murder Unincorporated
“Quit working as a nurse!” “All right, I will!” thus began the married life of Yasuo and Keiko. But the reality is harsh....
Nurse's Husband
Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Tokyo baka odori" by Haruo Oka and Chiyoko Shimakura.
The Happy Dancers
Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Wakai omawari-san" by Shiro Sone.
Kingorô no omawari-san
Chief editor Shirou Kanzaka (Hisaya Morishige) of Sankei Publishing Inc. is being tried for embezzlement and the staging of Chiyo Umehara's suicide....
Called to the Stand
Japanese drama film.
Kanshō fujin
Joe, Okita, and Serizawa hear of the armed robbery of a truck carrying one billion eighty million yen's worth of Mint paper. Knowing that the thugs...
Danger Pays
Terrorists hijack an oil tanker and threaten to blow it up unless Japan meets their demands.
High Seas Hijack
In order to pay back Mrs. Kajiki for her good deed in the past, Hatsu moves from her village in Akita to Tokyo to start working as a maid for her...
The Maid's Kid
A coming-of-age story about two newcomers to the world of professional baseball who compete for Rookie of the Year honors and love.
Tokyo no Kodoku
Based on the manga of the same name. Originally published in the Japanese magazine Weekly Playboy. It follows Ippei Yasuda, son of a prominent...
Ore no sora
Nozomi is a former actress who moves back to Japan from New Zealand. Upon arriving, she meets her fellow high school student neighbor Ryotaro Shiba,...
Nozomi Witches
In this outing of Harenchi Gakuen the students undergo a health check after school, but all is not what it seems. Teacher 'Beard Godzilla' has kicked...
Shameless School: Health Check in the Nude
Former students of the notorious Harenchi Gakuen college open a new school for dissident youths after their former school is ruined by disputes.
New Harenchi Gakuen College
Junko (Sho Aikawa) is a low-level yakuza in the service of Yoshikawa (Toru Minegishi), despite the misgivings of his uncle (Jo Shishido). He lives...
Neo Chinpira: Zoom Goes the Bullet
Two yakuza, one of whom frequently reflects on an uncomfortable past taking advantage of Korean women, meet a stowaway on Japanese soil from across...
The Sea of Genkai
Nobuo is a hot-headed hoodlum fresh out of reform school who struggles to make a clean break with his tearaway past.
The Boy Who Came Back
A fantastic adventure of a brother and sister flying a ghost ship, guided by a red crow, in search for an old captain. The ghost ship was designed by...
Red Crow and the Ghost Ship
A group of pirates sail the treacherous Pacific ocean in search for wealth.
Tiger of the Sea
Laughter is brought about by a teacher-husband and student-wife couple.
Okusama wa 18 sai: shinkon kyoshitsu
A biopic about Japanese baseball player, Tetsuharu Kawakami.
Kawakami Tetsuji, No. 16
A young gambler returns from prison to find his gang scattered, and many gone over to his old rival. But their rivalry is not only a matter of...
The Dragon and the Tiger
The young rambler, Shinji Taki, with his guitar arrives a hot spa town at the foot of Mount Aizu Bandai. Of course he solves the problems in the town...
The Rambler in the Sunset
Plans to build a touristic hot spring on the island of Izu Oshima run afoul of the Kobe yakuza group, which intends to use the island as a relay base...
The Guitarist from the Sea
An airplane loaded with 50 million yen for the reconstruction of Amami Oshima crashes en route from Kagoshima, Kyushu, but neither the money nor the...
Wind of Volcano
When Ryuji - the Gun Slinger, a drug addict leaves hospital to which he was taken after a gunfight by a notorious killer named Gin of Colt, he is...
Ryuji, the Gun Slinger
In the 20th century, the Japanese government exploits prisoners as expendable slave laborers in a coal mine, which results in conflict between the...
The Hard Core Criminal
Tadao Konno (Yujiro Ishihara) had been staying in Canada for 5 years since his girlfriend's death. She was killed for Gang's boss, Shiraishi. Now...
A Man's World
A Tokyo newspaper reporter goes after the Japanese king of cocaine trafficking but he's tricked by a woman who works for the gangster and gets framed...
The Naked Woman and the Gun
The Akiba and Shimura crime families run the streets of “K City”. With the construction of new buildings and new factories underway, the...
Blood For Blood
A tale of wannabe yakuza youths. When not cooking up scams with his buddies, Zenkichi develops a crush on Taro's disgusted sister, Miki. But soon the...
The Rough One
New Hoodlum Soldier Story: Firing Line
It is the first Toei yakuza film directed by Akinori Matsuo, who was active in Nikkatsu action movies. It is a local yakuza movie made following...
Gambling Code and Feuds
In the sequel to 1990's classic Neo Chinpira, Junko (Sho Aikawa) attempts to take out Kazama and then goes on the run. However, he quickly begins to...
Neo Chinpira 2: Zoom Goes the Bullet
It had been a year and four months since Mitsuo was last on a movie set. Welcomed back by director Ishizaki and his film crew, Mitsuo is excited to...
My Sweetheart
Sadao, is saved from death at the hands of Goro, a killer belonging to a rival gang by Joji just released from prison who has resolved to turn over a...
The Gun Like Lightning
After getting out of prison, a young yakuza tries to find out who killed his girlfriend, attempts not to get drawn back into crime, and to find his...
The Man with a Sinister Laugh
The Human Cyclone
A genius gambler and born hunter is a Buddhist monk by occupation.
Monk's Paradise
The fanclub of a deceased Japanese idol gather together for the one year anniversary of her death. By combining forces they try to unearth the true...
Kisaragi
On her wedding day, Makiko is stabbed by a woman in wedding dress. The wound isn't serious but the attacker blows herself up and can't be identified....
Our Wedding
In the nine part Wataridori series (1959-1962), Kobayashi played a wanderer on Japan’s back roads with most of the accoutrements of a Western...
The Rambler under the Southern Cross
Yukiko is on her way to meet Boss Gunji. Judging by her appearance, no one would suspect that this beautiful young woman, sitting quietly in a...
Cat Girls Gamblers: Abandoned Fangs of Triumph
Meet Chika. She thinks she's been jinxed: she's going to be dumped on Christmas Eve. Enter Tomako, who likes reading and making pudding. Although...
You'll Fall For Me
Ryu (Akira Kobayashi) sets foot on the Yokohama port with a suitcase filled with 300 thousand dollars. He was sent by a jewelry company in Hong Kong...
The Dragon of Macao
Ginjiro was born to a family of nobility, though he yearned for freedom. To earn this freedom, he affiliates himself with the worst of the worst....
Blood Shed
A middle-aged journalist looking to make her big break. After working the same beat on the "women's page", Yumiko gets promoted to editorials.
Turning Point
Based on the comic book series of the same name by Yûsuke Aoyagi.
The First Catch
A trio of high school boys get summer jobs at a seaside resort. Soon, however, they learn that the woman who runs it is in financial trouble. The...
Blue Jeans Memory
Students against teachers in the wildest kiss-stealing, petting-orgy ever.
Shameless School: Tackle Kiss
Comedy of high school where students and teachers run wild, based on a popular comic strip.
Shameless School
Hitomi, a former orphan who is trying to leave behind her delinquent ways, one day agrees to tutor a wealthy young boy who has just become an orphan...
Leave My Girl Alone
Burning Clouds
Coming of age film about rock musicians.
Take It Easy
Musical star vehicle for a young Kikkawa Koji.
Sukanpin Walk
The beautiful Shizuko and her husband Toyama Takayoshi have a loving relationship, But Takayoshi is getting older and isn't always able to perform....
Flower & Snake II
Shiawase wa doko ni
Killers Ken and Joji undertake the killing of a man named Sakai. He utters some interesting last words before being shot dead, leading Ken and Joji...
Danger Point: The Road to Hell
Eikichi Yamashiro, who is a former contender for the boxing title, works as a manager at a Club Champion owned by his fiancé Natsuko’s...
The Champion
Prisoner Katsuji must fend for himself and his prison mates in the fierce battle involving a family feud.
New Prison Walls of Abashiri: High Stakes at Abashiri
New Abashiri Prison Story: Honor and Humanity, Ammunition That Attracts the Storm
1964 Nikkatsu Theater of Life adaptation.
Jinsei Gekijo
Confession
A reporter is framed for murder while investigating organized crime. Upon being released from prison the plan for his revenge unravels.
A Hoodlum At The Risk Of His Life
Shokichi, the owner of the clothing store, lives with his daughter Hideko and plans to open an art gallery. One day, Hideko led a handsome art...
Temptation
After Tokyo police officer Yokoda is killed in the line of duty, his chief decides give Yokoda's body to Dr. Tani for use in a secret scientific...
8 Man - For All Lonely Nights
Rambler Shinji arrives in town armed with nothing but a guitar. With assistance from an old gun-for-hire friend, he sets about to stop the mob from...
The Guitarist and the Rancher
Eric, an American, arrives at an international tourist hotel and loses his self-defense Colt. It was Kudaira, a beggar, who discovered it, and...
Gun Number Zero
A tense action game that skillfully intertwines the human love between a criminal, his sister and his lover, and the desperate pursuit of a detective...
Wounded Beast
Mighty Rules
Taiyō o buchi otose
An anthology that embodies the essence of Toei action films with a stylish flair, this movie follows an aging hitman (Jō Shishido) on a quest to...
Again
Orera wa nagashi no ninkisha
A marine security officer stranded on the ocean in a small boat is rescued by a crew of buccaneers.
Joe of Aces: Gambling for a Living
Seishun wo warera ni
The Gambler
The first in the "Gokudo Seisen" series, a hard-line action OV that presents the original draft of Shigenori Takechi under the supervision of Takashi...
Gokudô seisen: Jihaado
Mekishiko mushuku
Nosappu no jū
A sequel to Detective Bureau 2-3: Go To Hell Bastards!
Detective Bureau 2-3: A Man Weak to Money and Women
Machi ga nemuru toki
Kai, Mei, and Yui are high school students. The three girls are also detectives and they solve cases using their reasoning abilities. It's also a...
Mobile Detectives: The Movie 3
Japanese crime film
Breasts and Bullets
The fourth film in the Tales of a Gunman series. When Ryuji throws his pistol into the sea, he is attacked by a man who calls himself Sabu and says...
Tales of a Gunman: The Man Without Tomorrow
Tatsuya Shijo was leading a blissful life with her wife and daughter. But all hell came down when a madman murdered his wife and daughter and...
Fukushu no Teio
The movie is about a man who started a brothel to make money out of his poor circumstances in the late Meiji period.
Muhō Ichidai
Joe, a master diver, explodes his fighting spirit and friendship across raging seas and scorching deserts in this gorgeous and entertaining epic.
Gambler in the Sea
Killer Kenji Sasagawa (Odaka) enters the room of a luxurious apartment in the silence of the night and, finding himself in front of the boss of the...
Merciless Bullet