Kayako Sono Movies

Subu makes pornographic films. He sees nothing wrong with it. They are an aid to a repressed society, and he uses the money to support his landlady,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Shoichi Ozawa

Tai Kato’s early 20th century set yakuza epic about an ordinary merchant girl (Hiroko Maki) who crosses paths with an assassin (Tetsuya...

Genre: Action

Cast: Hiroko Maki

Drama about the difficult relationship between a former wrestler, his wife and their adopted children.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Ogata

1962 Japanese movie

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michiyo Aratama

A cantankerous but loveable high school teacher teaches a night school in a poor neighborhood for adult students on the fringes of Japanese society.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshiyuki Nishida

A film about the substantial population of Koreans living in Japan, and the love affair between Kayako, a Japanese girl, and Im, a Korean.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sunghil O

Chotaro and Nakanishi, a duo of unemployed advertisers, drifted to Isehama, a port town near Yokohama, but a gang was making its presence felt in the...

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Cast: Chosuke Ikariya

Fukuzo, Kato and Matsuko, Kato's wife, are operating the "Kurenai Sightseeing Service" in Tokyo. Fukuzo and Kato were comrades during the war. One...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Frankie Sakai

Rika is released from girls detention school and then winds up at a lounge bar where she finds her other classmates working. This lounge bar is run...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Junko Miyazono

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Cast: Tsurutaro Kataoka

This film follows the daily lives of a group of people barely scraping by in a slum on the outskirts of Tokyo. Yet as desperate as their...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshitaka Zushi

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Cast: Frankie Sakai

Part 3 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series

Genre: Action

Cast: Yuki Jōno

The 10th film in the travel series. The original work and screenplay is by Kazuo Funahashi, the director is Shoji Segawa, and the cinematography is...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Frankie Sakai

The comical adventures of two long-distance truck drivers, Momojiro and Kinzo, continue. Momojiro and Eizo help bring home the father of two young...

Genre: Action

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

First film produced by Nikkatsu Children's Films.

Genre: Family

Cast: Koji Moritsugu

The drama special satirizes the daily life of a wife with a businessman husband who is busy with his work.

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Japanese comedy film.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kei Tani

The desires and pretensions of woman of the Ginza are depicted.

Genre: Music

Cast: Tatsuo Umemiya

This is the Twelfth film in the series. There were seventeen Wolves of the City films between 1968 & 1974, in the main aimed at shock-value &...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuo Umemiya

Rivalry between a hoodlum group and a gangster organization.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuo Umemiya

The third installment of the Emperor series, starring Tatsuo Umemiya as the man who rules the night world. Hiroshi rose through the ranks in Tokyo by...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Tatsuo Umemiya

Ghost comedy film.

Genre: Music

Cast: Kōkichi Takada

Young Sentaro struggles to avenge the murder of his younger sister Osuga and their father.

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Cast: Hibari Misora

A cynical samurai is left as the sole survivor to fulfill a plot to assassinate the puppet of a villain intent on usurping the shogunate in the 17th...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tōru Abe

Comedy of an entertainment agent and strip-teasers.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

A comedy about a good-natured train conductor Shinsaku helping his old friend Miwako find her missing brother.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

Fukuzo, Kato and Matsuko, Kato's wife, are operating the "Kurenai Sightseeing Service" in Tokyo. Fukuzo and Kato were comrades during the war. One...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Frankie Sakai

The tale of real-life Yakuza boss Shimizu Jirocho is told from his earliest beginnings as a gambler on the road as he forms his gang and sets out on...

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Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Gang leader Nami (cult film legend Meiko Kaji) kills a member of a yakuza group and goes away to prison. Upon her release three years later,...

Genre: Action

Cast: Meiko Kaji

After a friend and business colleague dies, Tora-san visits the man's daughter, then takes her to Tokyo so she can study for a night school exam.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

Part two.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Hideo Murata

Fujieda Baian is admired during the day as a skilled acupuncturist. However, his nighttime persona is that of a highly skilled assassin. For money,...

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Cast: Ken Watanabe

Hanayagi Genshu, who spent a winter in Tochihara Women's Prison due to an injury to the Hanayagi style Iemoto, is allowed to be paroleed. In Asakusa,...

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Cast: Genshū Hanayagi

A comedy directed by Yasuzo Masumura starring Yunosuke Ito.

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Cast: Yūnosuke Itō

This film is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Hisashi Inoue, which tells the story of a comedian who teams up with a strange man he...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tamori