Tokue Hanazawa Movies

The university professor Ozeki Hitoshi (Ryu Chishu) is regarded as an eccentric by people in his surroundings. When his daughter Tokiko is asked to...

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Cast: Chishū Ryū

Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Michiyo Aratama

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Eitarō Shindō

An elderly woman, Ume Matsumoto, complained to the First Investigation Department that her son Hirasaka, who runs a shoe store, had disappeared. The...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Yūji Hori

The First Investigation Department is investigating a murder case that took place at a government agency, with particular attention to finding an...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Yūji Hori

A sad love story between young Umihiko Kojima and a beautiful girl named Yukiko Shino.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshiko Sakuma

A film about the rivalry between Captain Gondo and the harpooner Yosuke Yamagami, working on the best whaling ship Hayabusa Maru. One day they will...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shūji Sano

The murder took place at a hotel in Matsushima. The victim is a woman about 28 years old. The suspect is a young man who visited her the night...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Yūji Hori

Detectives of the First Investigation Division of the Capital Police Department are investigating the murder of a 15-year-old girl, whose strangled...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Yūji Hori

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuo Umemiya

1961 Toei comedy

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Eitarō Shindō

The investigation team of the police department is chasing a vicious criminal who kidnaps children, the key to catching the villain this time is the...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Yūji Hori

The film takes place at the junction of the two eras of Meiji and Taisho. Sakata Sankichi, an uneducated zori sandal maker, becomes a professional...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

A drama about relations between Japanese immigrants and the indigenous Ainu on Hokkaido, the most northerly island of Japan. From a novel by Taijun...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Takakura

Based on an autobiographical novel by Toshiko Takagi, set close to the end of World War II

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yukiko Ebina

Japan, February 1868. As the Tokugawa shogunate declines and the power of Emperor Meiji grows, Gonzo, a soldier of the Restoration Army, returns to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

When a fugitive begins a romance with the woman hiding him from the law, it becomes uncertain whether he will ever escape the shadow of his heinous...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Ogata

A talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising athlete to the baseball team the Toyko Flowers.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiji Sada

Two infantry regiments of the Imperial Japanese Army—210 men overall—tackled Mt. Hakkoda in the winter of 1902 to prepare for war with...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Takakura

In the former landfill, where construction is currently underway, the corpse of a middle-aged man with an unusual rosary in his hand was dug up. An...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Yūji Hori

A film adaptation of the original novel by Kazuo Dan. This exciting film, set in Asia on the eve of violent changes, tells the story of a young man...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Chiyonosuke Azuma

A Tokyo family escaping the war relocates to a Hokkaido village; their daughter is set to marry the local leader's son, but her siblings disapprove.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shima Iwashita

Sashichi is a dapper and handsome man. He is called a doll Sashichi because he is "a nice man like a doll." On top of that, he is a considerable...

Genre: Action

Cast: Masaaki Daimon

Tadateru Matsudaira, the sixth son of Ieyasu Tokugawa, was exiled for not taking part in the attack on Osaka Castle. 10 years before his exile...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Matsudaira

1959 Japanese movie

Genre: Crime

Cast: Kappei Matsumoto

Genre: Crime

Cast: Kappei Matsumoto

1959 Japanese movie

Genre: Crime

Cast: Kappei Matsumoto

A burnt corpse of a man was found in Okutama. As a result of the investigation, it turns out that the criminal strangled the victim with a bandage,...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Yūji Hori

Hayata and his best friend Ushijima came to Tokyo to become champions. Hayata repeatedly sought to join Tamura's boxing club, but Tamura fell in love...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Takakura

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Cast: Yūji Hori

1954 Theater of Life adaptation.

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Cast: Shūji Sano

This time, the investigation division is investigating the case of a man who confessed to killing a woman in a labyrinth 2 years ago, adhering to the...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Yūji Hori

A travelling theater troupe, led by Umagoro Ichikawa, comes to play in a mining town, and manages to sell every seat. Before the play begins,...

Genre: History

Cast: Keiko Tsushima

A mysterious thief called "Yami no Kiba" (Fang of Darkness), who sneaks into the residences of the shogunate one after another and steals the...

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Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

A 16-year-old high school student Midori Matsumoto was found dead on the banks of the Tama River. The only clue is shoe marks on rubber soles. From...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Yūji Hori

Two soon-to-be kamikaze pilots stop by a local school near their base to play the piano one last time, leaving a deep impression on a teacher. Years...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Misako Watanabe

The corpse of a man is found in the Dobu River in Tokyo, the victim was a man named Genzaburo Sakai, who was engaged in debt collection. The shoe...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Yūji Hori

A group of ne'er-do-wells live happily in the slums of what is now Tokyo and have a number of adventures: they get drunk and go whoring, revenge...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hajime Hana

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shinjirô Ehara

A woman remarries after receiving official notification that her husband has died, but he returns.

Genre: War

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

Two people disappeared, engineers of the company Yamato Matsui and Koyama. The two worked overtime, and it is proven that they consumed alcohol...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Yūji Hori

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Cast: Hibari Misora

After the death of a colleague, the workers at a factory form a labor union.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gin Maeda

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Yoko Namiki

Hamanaka Koichi returns to his wife Hisako and family in a sadder, run-down section of eastern Tokyo after having run away from home years before. He...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kyōzō Nagatsuka

Furuta Oribe is ordered to become tea master under Toyotomi Hideyoshi after his teacher Sen no Rikyū, the former tea master, was ordered to...

Genre: History

Cast: Rie Miyazawa

A special drama starring Masahiro Nakai of SMAP, which was aired on Fuji TV six times from 1996 to 2005. The original is a comic of the same name by...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masahiro Nakai

During the Sengoku period, an army relentlessly lays siege to a castle, but they will need the head of the opposing lord to declare victory.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kiyotaka Nanbara

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Cast: Naoko Ken

1962 Japanese movie

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shinjirô Ehara

1961 gangster film.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

A touching story following young shamisen string maker, Saku. Beautiful Saku moves to Lake Yogo, known for its production of quality shamisen...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yoshiko Sakuma

A human drama of crew and passengers on a special express train named “Sakura” from Tokyo to Nagasaki...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Katsuo Nakamura

Detective Tarao goes undercover to battle an evil gun smuggling business.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

To fulfill a friend’s dying wish, a young sailor Kenji takes on the task of delivering an heirloom to his friend’s daughter, Harumi, who...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hibari Misora

Shinichi “Sonny” Chiba returns as the reckless son of a private detective takes on the case of a minor league baseball pitcher who...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Sonny Chiba

Koharu, a young geisha, is in love with Kenichi, an apprentice carpenter to her father Masagoro. Their love life comes to a sudden halt after an...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hibari Misora

Three stories revolve around independence, a man searching for his wife, and a poor craftsman trying to make money.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

This film is strongly anti-war film. The film is based on the collection of writings by Japanese student soldiers who died during World War II. The...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hajime Izu

A bad cop is engaged in a violent chase to catch a yakuza boss. In his absence his wife runs away with another man, who turns out to be the very same...

Genre: Action

Cast: Yoshio Harada

Just before the end of the war, Japanese soldier Kitani is released from prison, having served his term for theft. Told in flashback, viewers learn...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isao Kimura

Three bank robbers, Eijima, Nojiri, and Takasugi, flee the police and escape into the mountains. At an inn high in the Japanese Alps, Eijima and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Based on the novel by Naoki Prize-nominated author Taro Takeshita, a thriller full of black humor. A jealous husband murders his adulterous wife,...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Kō Nishimura

1961 Toei adaptation of Yokomizo's novel.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Ken Takakura

The struggle of a young man and boys who try to create the environment where they can speak their minds freely.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sen Yamamoto

One after another, expedition teams were being attacked in the Himalayas. With the unprecedented boom in snow men, the public began to make a fuss...

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Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

Junkichi is the son of a rich landlord, while Koyuki is the daughter of a poor lumber worker. The mismatched pair soon finds love, and against his...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Momoe Yamaguchi

Japanese comedy film.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Eitarō Shindō

A story about the nature of office workers today.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Katsuo Nakamura

Sonny Chiba's first martial arts film, a partially fictionalized judo biopic based on prominent judoka Shiro Saigo (Chiba), the second student of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sonny Chiba

Based on Matsumoto Seicho's classic mystery novel of the same name, the story centers around a group of detectives who are determined to find the...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Hiroshi Minami

Kamiki (Sonny Chiba) is a career criminal who is given the chance to break out of prison for the 33rd time. Afterwards Kaimiki teams up with a bunch...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Sonny Chiba

Ayako is a 7-year-old girl with a dark, tanned face and a somewhat mysterious expression on her face. She shows up at the elementary school and acts...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Morio Kazama

In A Tale of Archery, young, timid bowmaster Kazuma (Akitake Kôno) seeks to beat the archery record set by Hoshino Kanzaemon, a mysterious...

Genre: War

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

When Nizaemon Kumogiri, a major thief quits his job as a thief, he has two more big jobs planned in order to obtain a huge sum of money to enable his...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

Reputedly based on Frank Capra’s 1939 film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, A Descendant of Tarô Urashima is about a repatriated soldier who...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Susumu Fujita

Detective Tarao investigates the deaths of police officers who were involved in solving a kidnapping case.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

A sly prep school thug uses his girlfriend to lure Hiroshi and Toru to a fight, but the scheme escalates to an all-out war between everyone involved.

Genre: Action

Cast: Toru Nakamura

An upstanding young man’s racy adventure filled with conspiracies and love.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ken Takakura

An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the local gangster bosses.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kenzo Asada

A man whose son has been murdered pushes to create laws to financially protect victims' families.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

Based on a blockbuster song by Kaguyahime, a folk group. Makoto, a college student who belongs to a puppet theatre club, meets Michiko, who works at...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiko Takahashi

Comedy based on a book by Joji Abe, about a man in prison for the 12th time.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tatsuya Fuji

In 1943, Japan is amidst the Pacific War. Sobei Sonoda is one of the wealthiest landowners of the San'in region. His land spread for miles, as far as...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Kazuo Funaki

Describes the oppressed life of the crab fishermen and their final revolt which is bloodily suppressed by the Royal Navy.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sō Yamamura

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sachiko Hidari

Friendship between an ambitious young thief and an artist during the Warring States period.

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Cast: Hiroki Matsukata

Su-San invites Hama-chan to go fishing at a place close to his heart after learning about Hama-chan and his wife's fertility problems.

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Cast: Toshiyuki Nishida

Ichiro (Chiba) is a scrappy little sport in a big car and funny hat always looking for some fun and some extra cash on the side. He and his friends...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Sonny Chiba

Japanese drama film.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yoshiko Kuga

Reprising his role from the popular TV series "Koya no Suronin" (The Lowly Ronin), Mifune Toshiro stars in this full-length, stand-alone made for TV...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

In the fourth installment, Musashi's potentially greatest opponent Kojiro jumps in and out of the story at the oddest and most coincidental moments....

Genre: Action

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

The heir to a family fortune discovers that a curse has been placed on it, put there centuries before by a band of samurai warriors. Adaptation of...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Kenichi Hagiwara

Rainbow Over the Pacific is a tale of romance that moves from the streets of Tokyo to the islands of Hawaii as it weaves the story of two...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yukio Hashi

After their father quarrels with local military men, Anju and Zushio are forced to flee, but they are captured and sold into slavery. When their...

Genre: History

Cast: Yoshiko Sakuma

The eighth film in the "master detective with seven faces" series. Bannachi patrols the town in his taxi when he sees a man heading into Shiodome...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

Contrast between two outlooks on life: one of a poor factory worker and the other the heir to millions.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kensaku Morita

Comedy of an entertainment agent and strip-teasers.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

A young, struggling couple are making every sacrifice so they will one day in the not-too-distant-future, have enough money to get married. As they...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shinjirô Ehara

The story is set in 1970 during the time of the first EXPO in Japan. The film’s main figure is a miner who suddenly becomes unemployed because...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chieko Baisho

The humorous tale of Jimbei, a miller, and his wife Osen who live in complete happiness. But Osen's beauty attracts numerous would-be lovers among...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Nakamura Kanzaburō XVII

A modern gang version of Chushingura, chronicling almost scene for scene the Brave 47 Ronin story, transposed from the Genroku Period to the Showa...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

A shooting incident occurs at the Asahina family gambling hall in Tokyo's Joto district. It is the work of Gaijin boss Brown and his henchman...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

In the year 1637 in Shimabara of Tokugawa-era Japan, oppressed peasant Christians revolt against the shogunate with the aid of a charismatic...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hashizo Okawa

Traveling salesman Kuruma Torajirō falls in love with an inn manager as New Year's approaches.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

Princess Kazu, the daughter of Shogun Ienari, is sent to marry Matsudaira Nobunao, master of Peacock castle in Kozuke province, a domain of 17,000...

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Cast: Ryutaro Otomo

Fourth Moonlight Mask theatrical film.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fumitake Ōmura

The film shows the bombing of Hiroshima and the horrific aftermath following the detonation of an atomic bomb on humans for the first time in history.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isuzu Yamada

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

In this gritty tale of gamblers battling in the samurai era, Okawa Hashizo gives perhaps his greatest performance as a gambler returning to his home...

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Cast: Hashizo Okawa

When the plague threatens a small town in Manchuria, a young doctor finds himself struggling to save the lives of his townspeople.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Sabu was once a boy soldier but people in his village disliked him. He finally broke loose when his land was taken.

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Cast: Hajime Hana

Picked up and raised on an island in the Seto Inland Sea, Yasukichi's only trait is his innate mischievousness. However, because his love for his...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hajime Hana

A friendly rivalry turns into romance for Yukiko, an elite female detective, and a handsome private eye named Mitamura while both are investigating...

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Cast: Hibari Misora

Sayuri, a young woman born to a simple life on a farm, moves to Tokyo to pursue a life long dream of becoming a singer. Through dance, music, and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hibari Misora

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Cast: Ken Takakura

An action-packed, dramatic gangster film.

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Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

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Cast: Shintarō Katsu

An uptight young man comes to suspect that his factory worker girlfriend has a secret involving his boorish older brother.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mitsuko Baisho

As the Shogun lays dying, seventeen Iga clan ninja are sent to infiltrate the impenetrable fortress where his youngest son is preparing to storm Edo...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kotaro Satomi

Zatoichi is a blind massage therapist and swordsman who finds out that something troubling is taking place on the outskirts of town. After...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

Bungo is released from prison to find his son Kenichi in the care of strangers. Teruko, the woman originally looking after the boy, was forced to...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Sonny Chiba

Comedy of two brothers working at a local governmental office.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kinichi Hagimoto

Keiko’s life is turned upside down when she discovers that she has been infected with HIV. As she struggles to cope with the situation and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoko Minamino

Two men succeed in opening a joint restaurant after hilarious troubles.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kinichi Hagimoto

About the struggles of day labourers to achieve dignity and a standard of living above the starvation level. Utilising the Zenshinza theatrical...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chōjūrō Kawarasaki

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sumiko Hidaka

One of the earliest Japanese cop films following a mysterious killing on the last train to Mitaka, Tokyo.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Yūji Hori

Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s rarest films. A socially conscious drama...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takashi Shimura

Lonely youth Shinji meets Hatsue, a pretty pearl diver, on the beach and the two fall in love. But Shinji has a rival for Hatsue's affections, Yasuo....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Momoe Yamaguchi

Genre: Crime

Cast: Kappei Matsumoto

Gisuke Hayashida is an illegal dentist during the day and a burglar by night. One night during a burglary he witnesses a train derailment. Some...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

Two detectives are tasked to investigate the murder of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a Tokyo rail yard.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tetsuro Tamba

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Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

A great famine struck all of Japan: the so-called Great Tenpō famine. It was a time when there were frequent uprisings in rural areas due to...

Genre: History

Cast: Mikijiro Hira

Students in a small rural school love their poor but unconventional teacher Mr Matsukuma although he is misunderstood by most of the villagers and is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tokue Hanazawa

This movie depicts a familiar samurai Tange Sazen story realistically. A Tange loses one of his eyes and arms in an attempt to recover a masterpiece...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryutaro Otomo

Japanese movie

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Cast: Yataro Kurokawa

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Cast: Kō Nishimura

Young boys learn survival skills on a remote island and rescue a girl abducted by a gang of foreigners.

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Cast: Jo Mizuki

Sequel to the movie Denko karate uchi.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Takakura

Teacher Yukiko finds herself in opposition to conservative faculty and villagers after defending a student for being in a relationship with a young...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Hara

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yūji Hori

Genre: Crime

Cast: Yūji Hori

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Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

Hidejiro is a wandering yakuza with a ‘karashi botan’ (Chinese lion and peony) tattoo. Owing a favor to the Soda Family, he kills the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ken Takakura

Tomizo, a master storehouse-breaker who has been released from prison in Denmacho after serving five years plans to break into the Edo Castle gold...

Genre: History

Cast: Kyôko Kishida

Oniwaban is an organization that is composed of two ninja groups… Iga and Koga. This is a story of a secret spy who settled in Okazaki Joka...

Genre: History

Cast: Fujita Okamoto

A martial arts master/detective investigates a series of murders and helps a deaf bathhouse attendant, Hisako.

Genre: Action

Cast: Tetsuya Takeda

The son of the murdered Yakuza, Kenji, at the request of his mother, worked in a stable company. However, soon the girl Kenji Amy, who was in favor...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tatsuo Umemiya