Kayo Matsuo Movies

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Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Tajima Yumi, in grade school, is overjoyed when her father says they are moving to an apartment in a big city. But the beautiful home she had...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mitsuo Hamada

A Shogun who grew paranoid as he became senile sent his ninjas to kill his samurai. They failed but did kill the samurai’s wife. The samurai...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kō Nishimura

Yataro Tanigawa, a one-eyed hired assassin, impresses yakuza boss Gomyo Kiyoemon with his skill. Gomyo hires Tanigawa as his bodyguard, or yojimbo,...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

In the second film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Ogami Itto battles a group of female ninja in the employ of the Yagyu clan and must assassinate a...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

The film tells the story of four orphans living in an impoverished mining town. An adaptation of a best-selling book based on the diary of a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroyuki Nagato

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Jō Shishido

The second part of the Gamblers series.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

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...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tetsuya Watari

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Masako Izumi

A Yakuza film directed by Kôsaku Yamashita

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Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Two lone wolf yakuza (Hideki Takahashi and Kunie Tanaka) rob a gambling den, then split up when pursued by the angry gang. They eventually meet again...

Genre: Action

Cast: Akira Kobayashi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ruriko Asaoka

A young man goes missing after visiting his girlfriend's isolated country home. His sister and her boyfriend trace him to the creepy mansion, but...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Kayo Matsuo

Based on the novel of the same name by Shoji Yuki

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Cast: Kenichi Kaneda

Approached by a friend about a matchmaking arrangement, Su-san goes to Hama-chan's home seeking help. Hama-chan is away on a business trip, but...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Toshiyuki Nishida

Tsuiseki is a 1961 crime film.

Genre: Action

Cast: Hideaki Nitani

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Akira Kobayashi

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Cast: Akira Kobayashi

The tragic tale of Kiyono, a young woman from the mountain who fell in love with Takuji, a fisherman's son, and her devotion to him during a time of...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Ruriko Asaoka

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Ken Yamauchi

Kiroku boards with a Roman Catholic family and falls for the daughter Michiko. He ignores his feelings, joins a gang, gets in fights and, eventually,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hideki Takahashi

Like a girl runaway, Tsuyu moves to Osaka to work as a bar hostess. She meets the owner of a model school, Yoko, and seriously thinks about becoming...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yumiko Nogawa

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,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jō Shishido

After his own gang sets him up to kill a rival mobster, a hit man is forced to flee with his younger brother.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Hideki Takahashi

In the middle of the era, Taisho, a big boss in Asakusa Iizuka, was severely questioned by the police about the source of funds for the Daido...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Hideki Takahashi

When 150 guns are stolen from Iwakuni base and two police officers are shot dead, a detective criminal tries to find out the truth.

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Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

Goro had grown up in the yakuza world. As an active member of the Mizuhara family crime syndicate, he expressed his loyalty by always putting himself...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tetsuya Watari

Goro (Tetsuya Watari) wants to put his dark past behind. He heads to Hirosaki City to offer his condolences to Yumeko and to reunite with Yukiko...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tetsuya Watari

On his return from school, young Ichiro finds his father in bed with his adopted sister, Namie. Enraged, he decides to outdo his father in terms of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Little dark-eyed boy Kazuo. Yes, he dreamed of the sea. However, like everyone here in the village. Kazuo only wanted to study first, to finish...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroyuki Ôta

Japanese film based on the life of Zen Master Tetsugen Doko.

Genre: History

Cast: Jiro Kawarazaki

Japanese comedy film.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kyōji Aoyama

Japanese comedy film.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kokinji Katsura

Japanese comedy film.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kokinji Katsura

4 shocking tales revolving around plastic surgery.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Nagisa Katahira

Shinko Terasawa was always considered to be the odd ball of the bunch. At a time when romance was against school regulations, Shinko was the first to...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

Set in post-war Japan, a group of five, four men and one woman, gathers in the basement of a butcher shop to dig up a cache of morphine buried during...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroyuki Nagato

Volunteering as a "comfort woman" on the Manchurian front, where she is expected to service hundreds of soldiers, Harumi is commandeered by the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tamio Kawachi

Can a sinful man change and find peace? It's unlikely in gang-plagued Japan. Jokichi of Mikogami, a drifter (and hired sword), goes straight after...

Genre: Action

Cast: Yoshio Harada

Former soldier, Suehiro Katsuji, fights violent gangs and powerful Chinese merchants during the post-war period in Japan.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ken Takakura

aka Libido.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nobuko Otowa

Political fixer Homei Yamaoka's misdeeds come to light, throwing Japanese politics into deadly confusion. But he's not going down without a fight.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Shin Saburi

A high-school vigilante protects his community from the extortions of mobsters from a neighbouring city.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tamio Kawachi

A touching story of a girl who sails away from her love to keep her family together.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mitsuo Hamada

Three men vs. gangsters in a fight involving smuggled gold.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Noboru Andō

An assassin is mistaken for a doctor and threatened by a band of masterless warriors, but they realize their mistake and retreat into the darkness....

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Cast: Ken Ogata

Hama-chan and his wife are ecstatic about their long-awaited pregnancy. Meanwhile, Su-san's nephew joins Hama-chan's department at the company.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshiyuki Nishida

Based on Kazuo Taoka's autobiography, this film follows a Kobe gangster as he builds the small Yamaguchi-gumi into Japan's largest criminal clan.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ken Takakura

In late 1940 the Japanese were anxious to conclude peace in China and to that end sent Colonel Hidaka to inaugurate negotiations. He was mysteriously...

Genre: Action

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Yagyu Jubei, the finest swordsman in the land, is called upon to bare his blade to help Iemitsu keep his post. Meanwhile a fishmonger named Isshin...

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Cast: Toru Nakamura

Just when you think Kyoshiro's life can't get any stranger, someone starts running around raping and murdering, and leaving notes proudly proclaiming...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

It’s cross and double-cross in these further adventures of Ryuzen, the wayward priest played by Katsu Shintaro as he tries to help a woman who...

Genre: Action

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

Hideyuki Mitamura, a student at a private school near Osaka, is kidnapped on his way home from school.

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Cast: Kenichi Hagiwara

Depicting the friendship of three boys in New York, Los Angeles and Tokyo.

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Cast: Toshihiko Tahara

A re-make of the classic story made for television in 1982.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tsutomu Isobe

To solve the mystery of her deceased husband, his wife departs to Shinshu.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Kayo Matsuo

Hanjiro, a one eyed vagrant arrives in Okinoshima to save the town from a violent Yakuza group with the help of six handicapped guys.

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Cast: Koji Tsuruta

A boy who dreams of being a yakuza leader is reformed by a girl's pure love for him.

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Cast: Mitsuo Hamada

A story of friendship between a lone wolf judo expert and a youth.

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Cast: Hideo Murata

The Ginza Whirlwind (Akira Kobayashi) attempts to solve a murder.

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Cast: Akira Kobayashi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kayo Matsuo

A boy born in a poor village in Tokushima spends his days idly until a chance meeting sets him on the road to becoming boss of Japan's largest gang.

Genre: Action

Cast: Ken Takakura

Two Kyushu based yakuza groups are desperate for domaination of the area. When more powerful yakuza groups get involved in their power struggle, a...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Jinpachi Nezu

Depicts the bloody siege of the fortress of Port Arthur, one of the most strongly fortified positions in the world, during the Russo-Japanese War of...

Genre: War

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

A Japanese teenager travels to New Caledonia in search of the fabled "island closest to heaven" that her late father had told her about.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tomoyo Harada

A woman's life is irrevocably altered when a young murderer stumbles into her home.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Yuko Hama

Two brothers seek revenge on the yakuza responsible for the death of their father.

Genre: Action

Cast: Akira Kobayashi

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Renji Ishibashi

Final installment of THE WANDERING GUITARIST series.

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Cast: Akira Kobayashi

A lavish retelling of the true story of the final voyage and ultimate destruction and sinking of the battleship Yamato, Japan's greatest flagship...

Genre: War

Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

On a small island, inhabited by only fourteen hundred people, a young fisherman's son, Shinji falls in love with Hatsue, the daughter of the richest...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

Part one.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Hideo Murata

A large earthquake hits Tokyo, which was predicted by a seismologist but was ignored.

Genre: Action

Cast: Hiroshi Katsuno

5th entry in the Bakuchi-uchi series.

Genre: Action

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Two high school girls get mixed up in murder while investigating the disappearance of a classmate.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sawako Kitahara

Today is a new day with hopes. A youth hymn that depicts a young truck driver growing up in love with a dream while being supported by his friends...

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Cast: Mitsuo Hamada

The Domain: Severed Relations

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Cast: Ken Takakura

The Domain: White Blade

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Cast: Ken Takakura