Yōichi Numata Movies

A mysterious video has been linked to a number of deaths, and when an inquisitive journalist finds the tape and views it herself, she sets in motion...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Nanako Matsushima

While investigating the horrifying death of her boyfriend, Mai Takano learns about a videotape haunted by the spirit of a disturbing girl named...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Miki Nakatani

Kindaichi challenges the mystery of an incident in which three sisters were killed one after the other according to an ancient tradition on an...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

The second part of an action-packed action movie about the struggle between smugglers, the Japanese Coast Guard and G-men. Having caught a suspicious...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

Raised by assassins, Yuki is the last of the Takemikazuchi royal bloodline. A deadly weapon in her own right, she learns the gruesome truth about the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Yumiko Shaku

A group of sinners involved in interconnected tales of murder, revenge, deceit and adultery all meet at the Gates of Hell.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Shigeru Amachi

Genre: History

Cast: Hibari Misora

The fifth and final chapter of the Kanto Street Peddlers series! Will the battle in Asakusa be enough for a complete victory?

Genre: Action

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

An exciting historical drama in which a beautiful woman secretly solves the family problems of the Owari clan. Hibari Misora plays two roles: a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hibari Misora

Five women classmates from a college in Tokyo are on the first stretch of a walking tour when one of them, Masako, falls ill at a railway station....

Genre: Romance

Cast: Kieko Sawamura

Arrested for the murder of her wealthy businessman father, convicted on false evidence and sentenced to death, Kyoko is determined to prove her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Miyuki Takakura

Dr. Mikami is an elderly somewhat clumsy, very popular therapist, his patients turn to him with all possible and impossible questions. Because Dr....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kenjirō Ishiyama

It is a sport film about cycling.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michiko Maeda

A portrait of a man trying to become an artist in order to escape from his life as a miserable peasant due to severe annual tribute during the reign...

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Cast: Ryōji Hayama

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshio Hosokawa

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yaeko Mizutani

The treasures of the Aoyamas were buried at the bottom of the sea when a large earthquake occurred years before. Yumi Aoyama is the only person who...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Yōko Mihara

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sessue Hayakawa

1957 crime film

Genre: Crime

Cast: Shigeru Amachi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sessue Hayakawa

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Kyō

In the first year of Chōroku, Satomi Yoshimi, lord of Takita Castle in Awa, faces defeat by neighboring lord Anzai Kagesuren. As the castle...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

Live-action adaptation of Ko Kojima's manga "Sennin buraku".

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mayumi Ozora

In the northern province, two waitresses Mieko and Hanako from Tokyo, are missing somewhere near the River Kitakami. At night, the villagers of...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

Meiji Tenno portrays the buildup to the Russo-Japan War. In addition to showing the political events that led to war, it also shows the era from the...

Genre: History

Cast: Kanjūrō Arashi

Genre: Crime

Cast: Utako Mitsuya

The murder of the chief official of Kobe city's Customs triggers an investigation of a prostitution ring called the 'Yellow Line' that sells Japanese...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Shigeru Amachi

Harada Kai, the Date clan's Chamberlain attempts to take power from the lord himself.

Genre: History

Cast: Kanjūrō Arashi

Japanese mystery film directed by Michiyoshi Doi.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Ken Utsui

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

Second live action "Barefoot Gen" sequel.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jun Harada

Japanese sports comedy film about kendo.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tadao Takashima

Japanese youth film about kendo.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tadao Takashima

On September 1, 1923, an unprecedented earthquake hit the Kanto region. The streets are filled with victims, and rumors are circulating around. The...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Shigeru Amachi

During the naval battle of Midway in WWII, the battleship Mutsu was in its home port in Japan. The ship's officers and crew were frustrated at not...

Genre: War

Cast: Shigeru Amachi

Japanese crime film.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Shigeru Amachi

Japanese film about a juvenile delinquent who becomes a part of the Japanese Self-Defense Forces.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kōji Matsubara

Second "Maboroshi tantei" film, based on the manga by Jiro Kuwata.

Genre: Action

Cast: Shintaro Nakaoka

Third and last "Maboroshi tantei" film, based on the manga by Jiro Kuwata.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Shintaro Nakaoka

Japanese war film.

Genre: War

Cast: Kanjūrō Arashi

In 1941, overpopulated Japan faces an economic boycott and its armed forces push further to the south. And despite negotiations between Japan and the...

Genre: War

Cast: Kanjūrō Arashi

Nabeshima Naoshige murders his lord, Ryuzoji Takafusa, seeking to gain power and steal his Lord’s wife. To avoid her fate, Lady Takafusa drowns...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Ryôhei Uchida

In this Golden Globe winner for Best Foreign-Language Film, director Heinosuke Gosho -- a master chronicler of Japanese middle-class life -- presents...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chikage Awashima

In January 1904, the situation between Japan and Russia had grown tense. The Emperor Meiji is deeply concerned, for Russia has started to build an...

Genre: War

Cast: Kanjūrō Arashi

Japanese spy film.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Yōichi Numata

Ryutaro is a spy employed by the shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu, who is the target of assassination attempts that aim to hand power over to his younger...

Genre: Action

Cast: Hiroshi Ogasawara

In Part I we see the young would-be swordsman setting out to achieve greatness in war, achieving nothing because fighting on the losing side, & then...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideki Takahashi

Oryu searches for blind child she left behind and get involved in a Yakuza turf war that takes place in the Tokyo Theater.

Genre: Action

Cast: Sumiko Fuji

Superbly entertaining action comedy with Tomisaburo Wakayama as Kuriyama Capone who learned his trade under Al Capone in Chicago. The film follows...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

Japanese drama.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiko Tsushima

A story of lone wolf struggling with human compassion and duty.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ken Takakura

The seventh chapter of the stunning Hibotan Bakuto series. Many years have passed since Oryu the Red Peony began her soul-searching journey after her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sumiko Fuji

With her first love that unfolded in the battlefield in her heart, and with a short sword and a pillbox as her weapons, female gambler Okatsu the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Eiko Nakamura

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Cast: Miyuki Takakura

A teenage boy discovers that the planet Icarus is on a collision course with Earth by gazing through his telescope. Scoffed at by the scientific...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Sonny Chiba

Inosuke, a former gangster, and his friends struggle to make a living as simple fishermen in this tale of chivalry and friendship among yakuza in the...

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Cast: Hideo Murata

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

A young female samurai comes upon a dying messenger and agrees to deliver the scroll he was carrying to its destination. However, unbeknownst to her,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yōko Matsuyama

Genre: War

Cast: Isao Kimura

After being cruelly set up and deceived by Sugimi, a detective in cohorts with the mob with whom she was whole-heartedly in love, Matsushima’s...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Meiko Kaji

Tokyo, 1934. The boss of the clan that controls gambling agonizes and some of his followers propose to Nakai to take his place, but he refuses the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Two lovers lost in the mountains. In what direction do not go, they find themselves in a mysterious forest pond, as if some kind of force does not...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Shōzaburō Date

Atsuko is an office secretary who is also her family's primary source of income and caretaker in postwar Japan.

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Cast: Hideko Takamine

Nude models are being brutally murdered one after another. Is the painter with the dark sunglasses really the killer?

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Cast: Shoji Nakayama

An Ishiro Honda Film.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Teiji Takahashi

The story is of two people. One is deaf, the other deaf and mute. They marry after meeting at a school reunion, and the film follows their trials and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

Okatsu the Fugitive is the third film in the "Ohyaku/Okatsu" series. Okatsu; a "tomboy" who is good with a sword. Her father has found her a man to...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Junko Miyazono

Genre: History

Cast: Kanjūrō Arashi

When Honjo is selected as Kansai district's chairman, Iwasa of the rival gang asks Itsuki to do everything possible to have Honjo step down, which...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Set in Japan's Tenpyou era (729-749 CE), four young monks are sent to China to study Buddhism and bring a high priest back to Japan with them. The...

Genre: History

Cast: Katsuo Nakamura

The Bohachi Clan, the most vile, corrupt organization with ties deep in the Shogunate, have controlled the flesh trade in Japan for generations. When...

Genre: Action

Cast: Gorō Ibuki

Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha house to the next, trying to find love and hope...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nobuko Otowa

The stage director Shimamura, who is bringing western theatre to Japan, falls in love with the outspoken actress Sumako Matsui, and leaves his family...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

Ninkyo with Hideki Takahashi.

Genre: Action

Cast: Hideki Takahashi

Film with Junko Miyazono.

Genre: Action

Cast: Junko Miyazono

A group of Japanese tourists try to forget their pasts and find themselves in India.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kumiko Akiyoshi

A new documentary on director Nobuo Nakagawa and the making of the film, Jigoku. Featuring exclusive interview with Nakagawa collaborators.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Yōichi Numata

The Stormy Era of Twenty Years

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eiji Okada

A movie that depicts the tragic fate of many Yokaren flight-academy pilots.

Genre: War

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto leads the Combined Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy to defeat the American Fleet.

Genre: War

Cast: Shin Saburi

Shihomi Etsuko plays a race car driver who also lends out her services to the Japanese Secret Service. Although there really isn't much of a "chase"...

Genre: Action

Cast: Etsuko Shihomi

Japanese crime film

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Cast: Shoji Nakayama

Genre: Action

Cast: Tatsuo Umemiya

The film follows a young civil engineer, played by Toshiro Mifune, who is assigned to the Tase Dam construction site in what is now Hanamaki City,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hatae Kishi

1961 Japanese movie

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Cast: Yōichi Numata