Kōji Iwamoto Movies

Suspense drama about a married salaryman whose affair with one of his co-workers is compromised when, returning from a clandestine meeting with his...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Yūzō Kayama

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Jun Funato

Young Yuichi (Kayama) romances Sumiko (Hoshi) while helping out at his family's restaurant, singing in a band, and preparing for an important boxing...

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Cast: Yūzō Kayama

Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Genre: Action

Cast: Toshio Kurosawa

A young country boy leaves his village for Tokyo, where he begins to work as a stock trader. First part (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Daisuke Katō

Ushinosuke returns broke to his hometown, where everyone believes he's rich and successful. Part two (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Daisuke Katō

Japan, 1860. The men of the Mito clan, victims of the Ansei purge, anxiously prowl around the Sakurada Gate of Edo Castle with the intention of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

The first instalment in Toho's popular Wakadaishō (Young Guy) series.

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Cast: Yūzō Kayama

When Sergeant Okubo's brother is murdered at a Japanese outpost in Northern China during the Second World War, Okubo poses as a war correspondent and...

Genre: War

Cast: Makoto Satō

A woman struggles to raise her young son on her own in postwar Japan, finding companionship with a kind laborer while still hoping for the return of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isuzu Yamada

After being mistaken for an Interpol agent, a man who was just supposed to go on vacation gets mixed up in a war between two gangs intent on winning...

Genre: Action

Cast: Akira Takarada

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yūzō Kayama

Men are being murdered by a psycho called "The Telegian," who uses a matter-transmitting device to locate his victims.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grave misgivings about leading Japan's navy into war...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

This Japanese action-adventure is set in the 17th century when all forms of swordplay were banned. One fighter, an excellent swordsman believes the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Matsumoto Hakuō II

Crime film released in 1969

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tatsuya Mihashi

Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Suspense drama about an assassin charged with breaking up a gold smuggling ring, and the contract subsequently purchased against him and his employer.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Yūzō Kayama

In the sixth and final episode Rentaro Mikuni steals the show as Baiken Shishido, Musashi's nemesis. Mikuni is the nominal villain of the film, but...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

Shipwreck survivors found on the presumably uninhabited Infant Island leads to a scientific expedition that discovers a surviving native population...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Frankie Sakai

Nuclear tests create a radioactive man who can turn people into slime.

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Akihiko Hirata

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six...

Genre: Action

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Young Guy (Kayama) competes in an electric guitar competition and plays American-style football. Released alongside Invasion of Astro Monster.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yūzō Kayama

The Americans are swiftly closing on Okinawa, an island just south of the Japanese mainland. The Imperial command sends top generals and several army...

Genre: War

Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akira Takarada

Chuji Kunisada returns to his home village to find that Jubei Matsui, the corrupt magistrate, has been responsible for virtually destroying...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Ryuta and Mineo Komatsu are brothers, both yakuza (gangsters). Mineo, although complicit in crime, even murder, wants out of the gangster life,...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

An early Okamoto yakuza film, though it's not in the Underworld series (along with The Last Gunfight and The Big Boss) despite being alternatively...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Yūzō Kayama

An Ishiro Honda film.

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Cast: Yaeko Mizutani

After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their...

Genre: History

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

A floating amorphous life-form descends from the atmosphere to consume carbon in the form of diamonds.

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Robert Dunham

Towards the end of World War II, five men are tasked with freeing the son of a general from Chinese captivity.

Genre: War

Cast: Yūzō Kayama

In this patriotic WW II drama, the Japanese army demonstrates its courage and willingness to do anything to win as they endeavor to sneak into...

Genre: War

Cast: Makoto Satō

University student Arima Yasuhiro becomes acquainted with Ishihama, the president of a pharmaceutical company with a dark past, slowly but surely...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Toshio Kurosawa

Japanese police detective Saburo Fujioka is suspected of corruption, demoted, and sent to the city of Kojin. Kojin is the scene of fierce fighting...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Toshirō Mifune