Shigeru Tsuyuguchi Movies

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Cast: Michiyo Yasuda

The story of three brothers who, after loosing their parents in the Great Kanto Earthquake, continued their respective yakuza family business and the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Hideki Takahashi

In this first film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, adapted from the manga by Kazuo Koike, we are told the story of the Lone Wolf and Cub's origin....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

Set in the postwar turmoil, Akasaka no shimai paints a vivit portrait of the life of three sisters who struggle to live in Tokyo.

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Cast: Michiyo Aratama

Shizuku lives a simple life, dominated by her love for stories and writing. One day she notices that all the library books she has have been...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Yoko Honna

The neglected common-law wife of a Japanese librarian is repeatedly harassed by a young man with a heart condition who seduces her with the prospect...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masumi Harukawa

A Man Vanishes examines the concept of Johatsu, tackling the phenomenon of people missing in Japan over the years. It picks one such person from the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshie Hayakawa

Set against the backdrop of a bitter power struggle between the faction of the chairman of the board and the faction of the vice-chairman of the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shigeru Tsuyuguchi

Writer Jippensha Ikku hears Tsutaya Juzaburo, a wholesaler of picture books, mutter on his deathbed, "Where has Sharaku gone?" He begins to figure...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kei Satō

A married woman lets her lover take naked pictures of her. The photos end up in possession of a man who starts blackmailing the couple.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mariko Okada

The film depicts carnivalesque atmosphere summed up by the cry "Ei ja nai ka" ("Why not?") in Japan in 1867 and 1868 in the days leading to the Meiji...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shigeru Izumiya

Unlike traditional gangster movies, it is a gangster swashbuckler that mixes romance and humanity with a yakuza lover as the main character. A young...

Genre: Action

Cast: Chieko Matsubara

Fifth film of "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Shigeru Tsuyuguchi

Fukazawa Shino is a prostitute in the late Meiji period. Shino was deceived by Tatsukichi and sold. One day Shino came to like a thief (Yoshioka) who...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshiko Mita

When her only relative, her elder brother is accused of robbing and murdering an old woman loan-shark, pretty, young Kiriko travels from her home in...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Chieko Baisho

University student Akira meets the lovely 14-year-old Yumi, whom he had tutored years ago. Her mother is told by her doctor that the schoolgirl has...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Kumiko Goto

In the prewar days leading up to the Second Sino-Japanese War of 1937, head flight instructor Lt. Katō Tateo of the Imperial Japanese Army-Air...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Makoto Satō

A young man leaves his widowed mother on her improverished farm and makes his career in the Japanese navy.

Genre: War

Cast: Kichiemon Nakamura II

The tragic, yet exciting story of the friendship between Nakayama Yasubei, a member of the 47 Ronin, and Tange Tenzen, a relative by marriage of the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroki Matsukata

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tetsuro Tamba

Twelfth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.

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Cast: Kyōko Enami

Set in the icy wilderness of Hokkaido during the early days of the Meiji era, where the brutal warden of Kabato Prison terrorizes convicts sentenced...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

A street war breaks loose between two rival gangs in the Kansai region of Japan. Goro is in the middle of action. Through a knife fight against Sueo,...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tetsuya Watari

In Osaka during the Edo period, ruler Sanada Yukimura was in losing position, fearing Toyotomi's blood descendents would end, he impregnates one of...

Genre: Action

Cast: Yumiko Nogawa

Based on a story by Akiyuki Nosaka.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

Helping her mother manage a nightclub, young Emiko quickly realizes how difficult life is.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yoshiko Mita

Japanese drama film.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tomomi Satô

A woman, Tome, is born to a lower class family in Japan in 1918. The title refers to an insect, repeating its mistakes, as in an infinite circle....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sachiko Hidari

Explicit drama about a young woman who becomes involved with a group of college students who play "spin-the-bottle" and the women must make love or...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuya Mihashi

Second part of the series where sex magic skills of female and Iga ninjas clash over enourmous treasure of the Toyotomi family, discovered in...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kō Nishimura

Tsutomu Yoshioka, a Tokyo office worker, is enaged to Mariko, the niece of his company's president. But Yoshioka has a crisis of consence when he...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ruriko Asaoka

By going to the Philippines, Imamura comes to meet people living in an extreme poverty. He discovers very quickly that some communities are under the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Shōhei Imamura

The Japanese government decides to install a radar on the top of Mt. Fuji, in order to detect typhoons as far as 800 km south of the Japanese...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara