Masayo Banri Movies

The story of men devoted to the yakuza lifestyle and their struggles during a time of fading yakuza power.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

The salaryman is the object of admiration in the world. Because there is no more carefree job than this, this cheerful song comedy is set to the hit...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Keizō Kawasaki

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Shintarō Katsu

Women endure hardship and struggle to keep away from prostitution in the immediate aftermath of WWII. The "Special Comfort Women Association" (RAA)...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuko Obata

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Ken Utsui

The adventures of a blind, gambling masseur and master swordsman. Zatoichi targets a yakuza-controlled village, because war with a neighbouring...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

Returning to the village where a year before he had killed Hirate, a much-admired opponent, Zatoichi encounters another swordsman and former rival in...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

After arriving in the town of Shimonita, Ichi finds that a price has been put on his head by a local yakuza boss. He's drawn into a trap, but after...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Masayo Banri

In Edo-period Japan, Shingo is born the son of an assassin who was executed for murdering her lord’s concubine. Decades later, his adoptive...

Genre: Action

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

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

In the mountain regions of Hida, the dreams of a peasant named Kyonosuke, who longed to be a samurai, come true when he becomes one of three doubles,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

The film marked Yōko Mihara's debut as the star of Shintoho's series of ama films, a role she took over from Michiko Maeda.

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Cast: Ken Utsui

Japanese action film.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Yōko Mihara

Nagasaki at the end of the Edo period had the taste of a criminal paradise, where, despite the exotic, dangerous work was always in demand. Here,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jun Fujimaki

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Eiji Funakoshi

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: Horror

Cast: Jūzaburō Akechi

Order of Yakuza

Genre: Crime

Cast: Jirō Tamiya

Directed by Hideaki Onishi of "Vampire Monster House" fame. A thriller and unique period drama directed by Hideaki Onishi of "Vampire Monster House"...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryūji Shinagawa

Fourth film in the Aitsu series. The outlaw-cum-travelling guitarist discovers that his friend has been killed by the gangsters who held up the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Akira Kobayashi

Desiring another officer’s new wife, a military police lieutenant fabricates evidence of treason that consigns the innocent man to torture and...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Shoji Nakayama

Chie, who's chosen as 'Ms. Woman Diver', and her friend Yuki, have been missing for several days after they left for Tokyo to be interviewed by a...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Michiko Maeda

Japanese mystery film directed by Michiyoshi Doi.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Ken Utsui

1959 Japanese film directed by Morihei Magatani for Shintoho.

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Cast: Masayo Banri

Japanese war film based on the true story of Yoshiko Kawashima, played by actress Miyuki Takakura in her film debut.

Genre: War

Cast: Miyuki Takakura

Japanese comedy film.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tōru Yuri

Japanese crime film.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Shigeru Amachi

Japanese comedy film.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tōru Yuri

Japanese comedy film.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tōru Yuri

Japanese comedy film.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tōru Yuri

5 criminals organize a jailbreak in search of a cache of stolen diamonds.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Shigeru Amachi

Rumi (Yoko Mihara) and Emi (Masayo Banri) are sisters who dance nightly at the Blue Moon cabaret, which happens be the headquarters of a drug ring....

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Yōko Mihara

Japanese comedy film.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mayumi Ozora

Japanese comedy film.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kingorō Yanagiya

Japanese crime film.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Keinosuke Wada

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Cast: Miwa Takada

Genre: Crime

Cast: Yōko Mihara

Japanese spy film.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Yōichi Numata

A blind masseur visits a samurai to request the return of a loan. The samurai kills him in anger, then has his servant dump the body in the Kasane...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Katsuko Wakasugi

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

Thriller about a gangster and an outlaw who become friends despite their different outlooks.

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Cast: Tatsuo Umemiya

Genre: Action

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

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Cast: Bunta Sugawara

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Cast: Teruo Yoshida

Adaptation of a famous Kyouka Izumi novel. Set in the early 1900's, it tells the story of the impossible love between a young scholar a beautiful...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Genre: Action

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Story of a nineteen-year-old office girl who loses her virginity.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Keiko Nishioka

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

Chairman of the Shin Nihon Kaihatsu company Fukazawa, using clever ways to circumvent the law, rose to the top of the economic backstage. Three...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jirō Tamiya

At sixteen, due to illness, Tsuruko goes blind, and has no choice but to become a massage therapist. One day, stumbling on a staircase, he meets a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masayo Banri

A 1961 film directed by Yoshiyuki Kuroda.

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Cast: Shintarō Katsu