Tatsuo Hanabu Movies

A traditional bar mistress in Kyoto clashes with her Tokyo rival.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Kyō

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Cast: Machiko Kyō

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Hiroshi Kawaguchi

Genre: War

Cast: Kōjirō Hongō

Film by director Kenji Misumi

Genre: Action

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Kōjirō Hongō

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Cast: Jirō Tamiya

Princess Kiyo accidentally injures a local priest, Anchin, while on a hunt. She apologizes, but feels irritated by Anchin’s indifference to her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

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Cast: Shintarō Katsu

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Cast: Kyōko Enami

Based on the short story of the same name by Seichō Matsumoto.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jun Negami

Yukiko Shiba, a doctor, and Akira Sakai, a composer and musician, are lovers. Their love is a forbidden one. He is married, with children. She is a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Utsui

Sachiko's beloved sister Nobuko was supposed to go to Tohoku when she suddenly dies in a car accident in Hamamatsu. Sachiko begins to trace her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Junko Kano

16th in the 17 film Daiei "Woman Gambler" series

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Cast: Kyōko Enami

Order of Yakuza

Genre: Crime

Cast: Jirō Tamiya

In the 19th century Edo period, sisters Oshizu and Otaka have sacrificed their personal happiness to work and care for their ailing father. Otaka...

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Cast: Shiho Fujimura

Hayase, a schoolteacher, assists Sakai in editing a German-Japanese dictionary. Hayase owes much to Sakai, as Sakai raised him for 13 years after...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fujiko Yamamoto

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Cast: Eiji Funakoshi

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Cast: Toshio Takahara

Tsunamune Date, the young lord of Sendai Domain, was ordered by the shogunate to stand down after being spotted in a brothel. Shortly after, four...

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Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

Adaptation of the Yukio Mishima novel.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

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Cast: Aiko Mimasu

1945 Japanese movie

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Cast: Jun Usami

The inventor of a ground-breaking glue, Sanada, becomes rich thanks to his discovery a high executive in his company. Because of this promotion, his...

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Cast: Ayako Wakao

Takuya Tsuda is a cop who loves motorcycles. One day a speeding motorcycle seriously injures a child and his investigations lead Takuya to Akio...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jirō Tamiya

Mysterious incidents occur one after another on the express train as it plows through the dark night on the railroad tracks! The first woman is...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Masao Wakahara

1945 Japanese movie

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Cast: Jun Usami

Ex-war financier Kuraishi Kinnosuke is visited by a ghostly face in the middle of the night telling him to return the 5.5 million yen jewel he stole...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Jun Usami

Ren Yoshimura directed this Daiei melodrama that was based on the novel entitled "Pandora's Box" by Dazai Osamu.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiko Orihara

A youthful film filled with youth and passion, set against the backdrop of the ocean and filled with admiration for a dynamic young man and the heart...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroshi Kawaguchi

A middle-aged husband of a younger woman finds her youth intimidating to the point that he cannot become aroused. His solution involves the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Kyō

A series of ghastly murders are being committed. The one similarity in each of the murders is that a weird buzzing sound is always heard right before...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Yoshirō Kitahara

Genre: Action

Cast: Jirō Tamiya

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

The Dai-bosatsu toge trilogy is based on Kaizan Nakazato's unfinished long series of novels (41 books, written from 1913 to 1941). Set in the last...

Genre: Action

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Yoso is truly a lost classic, set in the Nara Era (710-794), from Kinugasa Teinosuke the same writer/director who gave us the recognized classic Gate...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Nishi is an advertising executive for a caramel company that is planning to launch a new product, in fierce competition with two other companies.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hiroshi Kawaguchi

Two car manufacturers spy on each other to try to find out details and prices of a new sports car each is about to launch.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Jirō Tamiya

Directed by Senkichi Taniguchi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuo Hanabu

When a theater troupe's master visits his old flame, he unintentionally sets off a chain of unexpected events with devastating consequences. A remake...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ganjirō Nakamura II

In eighth century China, the Emperor is grieving over the death of his wife. The Yang family wants to provide the Emperor with a consort so that they...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Machiko Kyō

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tadashi Date

The final film in Shimizu’s thirty-plus year career, Image of a Mother remains true to Shimizu’s central themes as a young boy must learn...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chikage Awashima

On his release from prison a young yakuza, along with his brother, decides to turn his back on criminal life instead of taking over the position of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yukio Mishima

A youth drama set in a Japanese university which is home to a group of active, leftist students.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

After a businessman is murdered, an investigation identifies a suspect who is then put on trial for that crime.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Ken Utsui

14th in the 17 film Daiei "Woman Gambler" series

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Cast: Kyōko Enami

Fujiko Niwa, a nurse, is in love with Dr. Suga, but fear clutches her heart when she overhears that Reiko, the Director's daughter, is coming to the...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Keizō Kawasaki

Genre: Romance

Cast: Jun Negami

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kenji Sugawara

A timely masterpiece that boldly reveals women's secrets on the issue of when abortion is acceptable...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mitsuko Mito

Tamio Moroi, a young university graduate, works at a large brewery where he is taught to do nothing but look busy. When his father goes insane, he is...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hiroshi Kawaguchi

An industrial espionage film.

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Cast: Jirō Tamiya

Genre: Drama

Cast: Aiko Mimasu

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Cast: Tazuko Niki

The biopic of Shigenobu Ōkuma, one of the main Japanese leaders at the turn of the 20th century, a supporter of rapprochement with the United...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ken Utsui