Nobuo Kaneko
Nobuo Kaneko (金子信雄 Kaneko Nobuo, 27 March 1923 – 20 January 1995) was a Japanese actor. He appeared in more than 200 films between 1950 and 1993. He was a versatile character actor, playing roles ranging from comedic buffoons to hardened yakuza bosses.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 4.387 |
| Birthday | 1923-03-27 |
| Place of Birth | Taito, Tokyo, Japan |
| Also Known As | Нобуо Канэко, |
1952
Ikiru
8.301/1129
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look...
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Ikiru
1962
Red Bud and White Flower
0/0
A high school boy and girl in the midst of their youth try to get their parents to remarry.
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Red Bud and White Flower
1978
Never Give Up
5.7/7
Special forces officer Ajisawa leaves his paramilitary group to take care of his newly-adopted daughter, Yoriko: the sole survival of a bloodbath for...
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Never Give Up
1956
Phoenix
0/0
Emi Ikushima, a star actress in the Roses, is half-hearted, but she wasn't disappointed by the news of her father Enmy's sudden death, and she perform...
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Phoenix
1961
The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
8.4/178
After the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria. Intent on returning to his dear wife and his old life,...
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The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
1966
Tokyo Drifter 2: The Sea Is Bright Red as the Color of Love
0/0
The film focuses on the romantic life of Tetsu (Watari), the drifter, and the girls he loves but can never quite bring himself to settle down with. To...
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Tokyo Drifter 2: The Sea Is Bright Red as the Color of Love
1956
Ryûri no kishi
0/0
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Ryûri no kishi
1968
Rogue
0/0
Coal miner Isamu Oba is forced to quit his village and leave his mother and siblings behind. Mining buddy Ichiro accompanies him to Tokyo, and the pai...
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Rogue
1977
Japanese Godfather: Ambition
8.75/2
An ambitious Kansai yakuza don moves in on Tokyo using financial and political tactics, sparking conflict with a local criminal association.
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Japanese Godfather: Ambition
1962
Sugata Naki Tsuisekisha
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Sugata Naki Tsuisekisha
1966
Warm Current
0/0
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Warm Current
1954
Sound of the Mountain
7.4/58
An ingratiating bride develops warm ties to her father-in-law while her cold husband blithely slights her for another woman.
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Sound of the Mountain
1985
Godzilla 1985
6.7/174
Originally released in Japan as "The Return of Godzilla" in 1984, this is the heavily re-edited, re-titled "Godzilla 1985". Adding in new footage of...
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Godzilla 1985
1961
Joe of Aces: Give and Take
0/0
Against the bosses of the underworld that dominate Yokohama, Kobe, and Hong Kong, ace Joe, who plays an invincible gunman, shows off his transcendent...
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Joe of Aces: Give and Take
1964
Main Street in the Underworld
5.8/8
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Main Street in the Underworld
1966
The Magic Serpent
6.2/6
In ancient Japan, a good lord is killed and his throne is taken by the trecherous Yuki Daijo and his wizard friend Oroki-maru. The young prince Ikazuk...
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The Magic Serpent
1964
Fight, Zatoichi, Fight
6.8/49
Blind swordsman/masseuse Zatoichi befriends a young woman returning home with her baby. When gangsters mistake her for Zatoichi and kill her, Zatoichi...
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Fight, Zatoichi, Fight
1974
Girl Boss: Crazy Ball Game
6.4/5
Released from reform school, the Girl Boss and her girl gang enter into conflict with another girl gang who are allied to the powerful Yakuza Boss.
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Girl Boss: Crazy Ball Game
1973
Semi-Document: Eros No Joô
0/0
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Semi-Document: Eros No Joô
1960
Intimidation
7.1/19
Koreyoshi Kurahara's ingeniously plotted, pocket-size noir concerns the intertwined fates of a desperate bank manager, blackmailed for book-cooking, a...
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Intimidation
1963
Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards!
6.2/26
Tajima is a private detective in charge of his own company, Detective Bureau 2-3. When warring criminal gangs go overboard by robbing U.S. military mu...
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Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards!
1970
Woman Boss
0/0
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Woman Boss
1957
A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era
7.2/31
Saheji, a man-about-town, gets stuck at a high-class brothel when he can’t pay the bill. He makes the best of his situation by performing various task...
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A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era
1968
Living Skeleton
5.5/28
A ship is attacked at sea for its cargo by a group of thieves who murder a newlywed doctor and rape his wife. Three years later her twin sister is kid...
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Living Skeleton
1973
Girl Boss: Escape From Reform School
6.2/6
Girl Boss Ruriko and her cellmates escape from a greedy corrupt reform school that's more interested in cheating the government out of money than refo...
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Girl Boss: Escape From Reform School
1954
Cape Ashizuri
0/0
1950s Japanese drama.
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Cape Ashizuri
1973
Terrifying Girls' High School: Animal Courage
5.2/6
We find Reiko Ike once again cast as a tough schoolgirl who has to band together with her enemies to upset the reign of their private Catholic high sc...
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Terrifying Girls' High School: Animal Courage
1968
Brothers'Code - The Back Relation
0/0
Yakuza Kojima appeared in Yokkaichi in search of her mother who died when she was young. There he met Torajiro, a master of kendo, who had just left p...
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Brothers'Code - The Back Relation
1961
Dai shinrin ni mukatte tatsu
0/0
Strife between competing lumber mills.
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Dai shinrin ni mukatte tatsu
1961
The Wind-of-Youth Group Crosses the Mountain Pass
5.7/3
On summer vacation, university student Shintaro gets involved with a magic troupe as they travel from festival to festival.
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The Wind-of-Youth Group Crosses the Mountain Pass
1974
The Rapacious Jailbreaker
6.5/2
Convicted of murder, Masayuki Ueda is sent to Hiroshima Prison along with his accomplice. But for a man like him, breaking out of prison is easy.
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The Rapacious Jailbreaker
1968
The Worship of the Flesh
0/0
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The Worship of the Flesh
1957
Man Who Causes a Storm
6.7/7
Shoichi Kokubun (Yujiro Ishihara) is a roughneck street musician, who has a brother that is determined to propel him into stardom. In attempt to catch...
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Man Who Causes a Storm
1970
The Experience
0/0
Two boys and two girls become acquainted and fall in love.
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The Experience
1954
The Garden of Women
6.6/9
A student at a woman's university takes a controversial action against the school's old-fashioned doctrines.
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The Garden of Women
1959
The Wild Reporter
0/0
Seven years ago, Ishimatsu Toshio, a talented radio producer at Zen Nihon Hōsō, witnessed a crazed drug addict murder his wife and then commit suici...
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The Wild Reporter
1975
正義だ！味方だ！全員集合！！
0/0
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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正義だ！味方だ！全員集合！！
1979
The Inferno
7/8
Hell manifests itself through the sins, shame and desires of an upper class rural family and a mother's grief from beyond the grave.
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The Inferno
1974
New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1
5.3/12
Bunta Sugawara is Miyoshi, a low-level assassin of the Yamamori gang who is sent to jail after a bungled hit. While in stir, family member Aoki attemp...
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New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1
1958
Ashita wa Ashita no Kaze ga Fuku
0/0
"Tomorrow is Another Day" tells the story of three brothers who struggle to shake free of the father's ties to the yakuza underworld. A star vehicle f...
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Ashita wa Ashita no Kaze ga Fuku
1962
Moeru minamijūjisei
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Moeru minamijūjisei
1973
Girl Boss Revenge: Sukeban
5.4/14
The Kanto Gypsies, a tough girl gang, hide out from the law in the middle of a disputed gang territory, where they end up getting kidnapped by siniste...
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Girl Boss Revenge: Sukeban
1965
Flowering Maidens
0/0
The young yakuza who have arrived in the city are being taught the beauty of work and the pleasure of learning by hard-working young people of the sam...
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Flowering Maidens
1968
Record of a Girls' High School Doctor: First Time
0/0
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Record of a Girls' High School Doctor: First Time
1956
Summer Storm
6/1
A woman falls in love with her sister's fiancé.
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Summer Storm
1974
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics
6.9/38
As Japan gears up for the 1964 Olympic games, the cops start to crack down on the gangs, under pressure from the public and the press, adding a new di...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics
1974
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode
7.3/37
While Hirono is in prison, his rival Takeda turns his own crime organization into a political party, whose two executives stir up new tensions in thei...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode
1959
A Man Explodes
0/0
Kensaku Muro and his father manage a farm in Sakudaira at the foot of the Yatsugatake Mountains. One day Kensuke saves a suicidal woman, Fukiko Uzu, w...
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A Man Explodes
1969
The Yakuza Awaits
0/0
Forth film in the Gokudo series with Tomisaburô Wakayama
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The Yakuza Awaits
1962
Jūdan no arashi
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Jūdan no arashi
1955
Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree
0/0
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Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree
1968
Enlisted Yakuza
5/1
It is the third film in the Gokudo series. In this episode, set in 1937, the main character of the series gang leader Shimamura is drafted into the mi...
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Enlisted Yakuza
1962
Ai to shi no katami
0/0
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Ai to shi no katami
1966
The Harbor of No Return
0/0
A jazz pianist named Shiro Tsuda returns from an overseas tour unwittingly carrying drugs that have been sewn into his jacket. When he stops by to see...
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The Harbor of No Return
1961
Whistling in the Darkness
0/0
A 1961 crime film.
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Whistling in the Darkness
1964
Black Weapon
0/0
Industrial espionage gets in the way of love and marriage for factory worker Katayanagi.
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Black Weapon
1993
Kokkai e ikô!
0/0
A close look at the inner workings of Japan's political underbelly.
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Kokkai e ikô!
1976
Truck Rascals in Fever Heat
0/0
The fourth film of the “Truck Yaro” series. A comical road movie of two long-distance truckers, “Momojiro” and “Kinzo,” who travel around Japan in hig...
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Truck Rascals in Fever Heat
1961
Crimson pistol belt
0/0
Wearing a symbol of justice and brotherhood on his waist – a crimson pistol belt, Ace Joe engages in a fight with villains trying to seize the mine.
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Crimson pistol belt
1962
Bōkyō no umi
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Bōkyō no umi
1962
Kenjū wa samishī otoko no uta sa
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Kenjū wa samishī otoko no uta sa
1981
The Imperial Navy
6.6/10
A lavish retelling of the true story of the final voyage and ultimate destruction and sinking of the battleship Yamato, Japan's greatest flagship duri...
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The Imperial Navy
1971
Delinquent Girl Boss: Worthless to Confess
6.3/16
Reiko Oshida stars as a young wannabe gangster tough girl, just released from reform school. She tracks down one of her classmates fathers, who runs a...
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Delinquent Girl Boss: Worthless to Confess
1962
Song of a Traveller
0/0
A crime film released in 1962
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Song of a Traveller
1958
Wolves of the Night
0/0
A unique action drama in which a ruthless yakuza encounters a woman and realizes his true love as the conflict between the yakuza intensifies.
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Wolves of the Night
1962
Namari o buchikome
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Namari o buchikome
1971
Story of Japanese Bad Men
0/0
Toei yakuza film.
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Story of Japanese Bad Men
1960
Return of the Vagabond
5/3
The 3rd film of the famous "Wataridori" (The Rambler) series from Nikkatsu. The young rambler, Shinji Taki (Akira Kobayashi), with his guitar arrives...
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Return of the Vagabond
1965
Chivalrous Life
0/0
In the middle of the era, Taisho, a big boss in Asakusa Iizuka, was severely questioned by the police about the source of funds for the Daido Federati...
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Chivalrous Life
1973
Terrifying Girls' High School: Lynch Law Classroom
6.021/24
Three new students at a super-strict girl's school must face off with a repressive school administration, the sadistic, murderous student discipline b...
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Terrifying Girls' High School: Lynch Law Classroom
1957
This Day's Life
0/0
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This Day's Life
1973
Battles Without Honor and Humanity
7.4/108
In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a new war between factious and ambitious yakuza.
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity
1960
The Rambler on a Pearl Farm
0/0
Set in Uwajima, Shikoku, an action film starring Akira Kobayashi who uncovers evils related to pearl farming.
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The Rambler on a Pearl Farm
1964
Red Handkerchief
7/5
A hot-shot detective in Yokohama kills a witness during a drug investigation. He flees to the countryside and evades his past for several years, only...
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Red Handkerchief
1958
Voice Without a Shadow
5.8/6
Asako, a former telephone operator once heard the voice of a murder suspect which has continued to haunt her. Years later her husband invites his boss...
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Voice Without a Shadow
1957
Eight Hours of Terror
7.4/14
A bus making its precarious way across a winding mountain road picks up some unwelcome passengers.
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Eight Hours of Terror
1959
The Age of Our Own
0/0
Minami Yasuo, a college student, lives with Yuriko who has become the mistress of a foreigner named Wilson. Whenever Wilson comes, Yasuo spends his ti...
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The Age of Our Own
1959
The Rambling Guitarist
6.2/5
Arriving in the town of Hakodate, a wandering musician, Shinji Taki, is soon recruited by the local gang as a hired hand. However, with the arrival of...
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The Rambling Guitarist
1968
Curse of the Blood
6.7/6
A samurai kills a blind man who tells him to repay his debts. Because of the samurai's actions his entire family is to bear a terrible curse.
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Curse of the Blood
1968
Human Torpedoes
0/0
Story of loyal sailors giving their lives for their country as human torpedoes towards the end of the War.
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Human Torpedoes
1976
Cobra 2
0/0
Japanese crime film.
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Cobra 2
1952
Vacuum Zone
7/1
Just before the end of the war, Japanese soldier Kitani is released from prison, having served his term for theft. Told in flashback, viewers learn ab...
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Vacuum Zone
1980
Nurse's Husband
0/0
“Quit working as a nurse!” “All right, I will!” thus began the married life of Yasuo and Keiko. But the reality is harsh. Keiko even had to work on th...
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Nurse's Husband
1958
Night Drum
6.1/12
Following a yearlong attendance upon his shogun in Edo, samurai Hikokuro makes a long-awaited return to his home and doting wife, Dane. Initially gree...
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Night Drum
1964
The Glamorous Ghost
6/1
Based on the novel by Naoki Prize-nominated author Taro Takeshita, a thriller full of black humor. A jealous husband murders his adulterous wife, th...
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The Glamorous Ghost
1950
The Rainbow-Colored Flower
1/1
Ebihara is a budding novelist entangled in a complicated web of relationships with three women from three different generations: Kazue, a coquettish t...
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The Rainbow-Colored Flower
1955
A Hole of My Own Making
6/1
Nobuko is a widow who lives with her daughter-in-law Tamiko and her brother Junjiro. The family's gatekeeper, Komatsu, is attracted to Tamiko, but she...
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A Hole of My Own Making
1956
Called to the Stand
0/0
Chief editor Shirou Kanzaka (Hisaya Morishige) of Sankei Publishing Inc. is being tried for embezzlement and the staging of Chiyo Umehara's suicide. T...
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Called to the Stand
1957
Madam
0/0
Japanese drama film.
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Madam
1956
Tonari no yome
0/0
Japanese drama film.
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Tonari no yome
1964
Edo Crime Book: Black Claws
0/0
Edo Crime Book: Black Claws
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Edo Crime Book: Black Claws
1978
Dynamite Don-Don
7/3
Yakuza Gang War is at the height in North Kyūshū Area in the summer of 1950, particularly between the Okagen Group and the rising Hashiden Gang. Now w...
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Dynamite Don-Don
1980
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Complete Saga
6.7/3
The 224-minute compilation edition of Battles Without Honor and Humanity compiles these four movies: Battles Without Honor and Humanity, Deadly Fight...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Complete Saga
1978
Karate Wars
0/0
Maki travels from Japan to Hong Kong and Thailand in order to show the superiority of Japanese karate to those countries' native to martial arts.
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Karate Wars
1984
The Return of Godzilla
7.2/254
After a fishing boat is attacked, the sole surviving crew member realizes it is none other than a resurrected Godzilla. However, efforts to bring the...
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The Return of Godzilla
1955
Stray Sheep
0/0
1955 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.
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Stray Sheep
1970
The Kingpin of Fair Ladies
0/0
A man is inspired to build a hospital after his mother falls ill and becomes a host to swindle money out of women.
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The Kingpin of Fair Ladies
1968
New Prison Walls of Abashiri
6/1
Former soldier, Suehiro Katsuji, fights violent gangs and powerful Chinese merchants during the post-war period in Japan.
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New Prison Walls of Abashiri
1968
Downtown Blues
0/0
The desires and pretensions of woman of the Ginza are depicted.
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Downtown Blues
1956
Gesshoku
0/0
A unique and controversial film directed by Umeji Inoue, based on the original story by Shintaro Ishihara, which depicts the image of a group of young...
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Gesshoku
1957
The Barefoot Girl
0/0
A beautiful and healthy young girl growing up in poverty overcomes hardships and grows into a woman in this deeply moving literary epic.
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The Barefoot Girl
1964
Black Thief
7.5/2
Organized thieves battle against the Shogun’s ruthless ruling in attempt to get back their land.
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Black Thief
1969
The Bad Guy Blues
0/0
A story about club hostesses in Osaka.
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The Bad Guy Blues
1970
King of the Night Life
0/0
1970 Toei movie.
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King of the Night Life
1960
The Poem of the Blue Star
0/0
Might Guy Akira's unique action drama depicts the bizarre fate of a young doctor who vows to avenge his girlfriend, who was shot by a yakuza on a whim...
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The Poem of the Blue Star
1973
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War
7.2/46
Shozo Hirono has managed to separate from the Yamamori family and create his own small family, and extend his circle of acquaintances. These new frien...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War
1973
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima
7.4/61
Repeatedly beat to a pulp by gamblers, cops, and gangsters, lone wolf Shoji Yamanaka finally finds a home as a Muraoka family hitman and falls in love...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima
1974
Father of the Kamikaze
0/0
Vice Admiral Takajiro Ohnishi could see that Japan's defeat in WWII was inevitable. He came to realize that the only way to force a negotiated solutio...
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Father of the Kamikaze
1979
Devil's Flute
6.2/4
Famous detective Kindaichi solves a series of mysterious murders in a wealthy family. An excellent blend of intrigue and betrayal, set against the bac...
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Devil's Flute
1961
Tokyo Knights
6.9/9
A college student takes over the family business in the field of organised crime.
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Tokyo Knights
1969
Samurai Geisha
6/1
Popular geisha Shinji (Fuji Junko) must defy a gang who plot to steal a lucrative coal business from struggling miners during the turbulent Meiji Era...
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Samurai Geisha
1968
Red Peony Gambler
7.2/12
Ryuko was raised by her father, a gambler named Senzo Yano in Kumamoto, Kyushu, after her mother died when she was little. When she turned 18 years ol...
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Red Peony Gambler
1967
Organized Violence II
6/1
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Organized Violence II
1989
Four Days of Snow and Blood
6.9/7
Based on the "2.26 Incident", an attempted coup d'état in Japan 1936, launched by radical ultra-nationalist parts of the military. Several leading pol...
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Four Days of Snow and Blood
1963
The Third Shadow Warrior
7.1/11
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,...
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The Third Shadow Warrior
1972
The Kanto Scarlet Cherry Gang
6/2
The Ni Family is the most well know and respected group of firefighters in the Kanto region. When their leader dies and the successor disappears, Tsu...
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The Kanto Scarlet Cherry Gang
1976
Yakuza Graveyard
6.458/24
A police investigator cracks down on yakuza business, but once he realizes the police are in negotiations with certain factions, he sides with his own...
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Yakuza Graveyard
1967
Dissolution Rites
6/1
Sawaki is released from prison after serving eight years for murdering a rival gang leader in order to obtain the land rights to a landfill for the Ko...
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Dissolution Rites
1975
300 Million Thief Immune to Charges Begins
0/0
In this retelling of an infamous unsolved heist, a couple tries to outlast the statute of limitations after successfully stealing 300 million yen.
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300 Million Thief Immune to Charges Begins
1952
Vendetta of a Samurai
6.8/14
The famous showdown at Kagiya corner has been told many times, but never before with the realism and intensity of this version scripted by Kurosawa Ak...
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Vendetta of a Samurai
1967
Portrait of Chieko
0/0
Takamura, a poet and sculptor, marries a budding artist named Chieko who dreams of becoming an oil painter. When a series of hardships befall her fami...
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Portrait of Chieko
1978
Shogun's Samurai
7.1/36
Following the death of the second Tokugawa shogun, it is revealed that he was poisoned by retainers of his son Iemitsu in hopes of gaining him the sho...
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Shogun's Samurai
1978
The Fall of Ako Castle
6.6/21
This is the story of "The Forty-Seven Ronin." Based on historical events in 1701-2, the movie tells the tale of the Asano clan's downfall and the reve...
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The Fall of Ako Castle
1961
Million Dollar Smash-and-Grab
0/0
A boxing melodrama. Two friends become boxers and begin training for the championship. These two boys eventually face each other in the ring.
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Million Dollar Smash-and-Grab
1979
Down with The Big Boss
0/0
In pre-war Japan, two members of a large yakuza syndicate instigate a turf war that embroils the highest echelons of Tokyo's underworld.
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Down with The Big Boss
1967
Contemporary Tales of Chivalry 4
6.2/2
Fierce war breaks out when Shujiro’s rival clan attempts to sabotage his lucrative construction business.
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Contemporary Tales of Chivalry 4
1975
Shimane Prison Riot
5/1
Japan, 1948: Hiroki Matsukata stars as a man facing a nine year prison sentence. He incites prisoners of Shimane Prison to the biggest riot in jail h...
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Shimane Prison Riot
1969
The Biggest Gamble
7/1
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 put...
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The Biggest Gamble
1966
Rub Out the Past
6/1
A lone wolf tries to eliminate a drug-smuggling operation.
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Rub Out the Past
1965
The Black Cat
0/0
Helping her mother manage a nightclub, young Emiko quickly realizes how difficult life is.
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The Black Cat
1983
Karate Cop 2
1/1
Karate expert Katayama (Takeda) investigates the robbery of a bank in Hokkaido, where an apple seed left at the scene holds the answer to the robbers'...
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Karate Cop 2
1961
The Plateau Man
0/0
Japanese Western set at a mountain ranch in Kyushu.
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The Plateau Man
1968
Hot Springs Geisha
3/2
A look at the lives of a troupe of geishas working in a small seaside resort town. For the most part, their lives consist of greeting boatloads of ove...
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Hot Springs Geisha
1973
Tokyo-Seoul-Bangkok Drug Triangle
0/0
A truck driver arrives in Seoul to receive his dead sister's ashes. While there, he discovers the death may not have been an accident after all, and h...
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Tokyo-Seoul-Bangkok Drug Triangle
1979
The Shogun Assassins
5/5
This is a film about a real person. Sanada Yukimura fought a war against Tokugawa Ieyasu.
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The Shogun Assassins
1966
Convicted Woman
0/0
1966 film directed by Kudo.
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Convicted Woman
1967
Gambler's World
0/0
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Gambler's World
1973
The Hard Core Criminal
7.5/2
In the 20th century, the Japanese government exploits prisoners as expendable slave laborers in a coal mine, which results in conflict between the pri...
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The Hard Core Criminal
1974
The Rapacious Jailbreaker
6.5/2
Convicted of murder, Masayuki Ueda is sent to Hiroshima Prison along with his accomplice. But for a man like him, breaking out of prison is easy.
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The Rapacious Jailbreaker
1972
Turtle Geisha
4.5/4
Natsuko is so good at using that super-strong vagina of hers that she can fuck guys to death. In the end, she’s pitted against a sexual superman and a...
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Turtle Geisha
1966
Seven Gamblers
6/1
Hanjiro, a one eyed vagrant arrives in Okinoshima to save the town from a violent Yakuza group with the help of six handicapped guys.
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Seven Gamblers
1979
Faraway Tomorrow
2/1
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Faraway Tomorrow
1967
Sleepy Eyes of Death 9: Trail of Traps
6/5
The Son of the Black Mass returns in this ninth installment in Daiei's longstanding Nemuri Kyoshiro series. This time Raizo Ichikawa as Nemuri is call...
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Sleepy Eyes of Death 9: Trail of Traps
1961
Quick Draw Joe
0/0
One day, a lone horseman rides into town with a wounded man strapped behind him. Joe, the Ace, had captured one of the bandits who had held up the arm...
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Quick Draw Joe
1963
The Revenge and the Death
0/0
A gritty, noirish gangster saga.
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The Revenge and the Death
1958
That Wonderful Guy
0/0
Yōko dreams of becoming a dancer and begins working with the famous musician Takeo.
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That Wonderful Guy
1955
Till We Meet Again
6.7/3
Jiro Sone sacrifices all comfort to devote himself to research. Young housewife Yachiyo is disappointed with her husband Kappei, who is more attracted...
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Till We Meet Again
1970
Thugs of Shinjuku
0/0
Fresh out of jail, a smart-mouth wise guy Goro takes the name “Big Brother Katsumata.” Not fitting in well with established gangs, he forms a rag-tag...
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Thugs of Shinjuku
1968
Goké, Body Snatcher from Hell
5.9/48
The survivors of a plane crash in a remote area are attacked by blob-like alien creatures that turn their victims into blood-thirsty vampires.
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Goké, Body Snatcher from Hell
1970
Duel at Fort Ezo
5.4/5
1864. Samurai Shinbei is sent in a secret mission to Ezo, in the North of Japan, to stop riots of villagers commanded by Jirozaemon. A Russian count's...
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Duel at Fort Ezo
1979
Aftermath of Battles Without Honor and Humanity
7/1
Two Kyushu based yakuza groups are desperate for domaination of the area. When more powerful yakuza groups get involved in their power struggle, a gro...
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Aftermath of Battles Without Honor and Humanity
1961
The Rambler under the Southern Cross
0/0
In the nine part Wataridori series (1959-1962), Kobayashi played a wanderer on Japan’s back roads with most of the accoutrements of a Western hero, fr...
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The Rambler under the Southern Cross
1959
The Praying Man
0/0
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The Praying Man
1958
Forever, My Love
0/0
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Forever, My Love
1960
The Lost Diamond
0/0
Two men perform a robbery on an airplane before parachuting to safety, and a newspaper reporter attempts to solve the crime.
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The Lost Diamond
1970
Postwar Secrets
10/1
Everybody's chasing a diamond in Sadao Nakajima's crime/action/drama. It was a based on a novel by Tsusai Sugawara, who was a Japanese writer and pol...
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Postwar Secrets
1972
The Pledge
5/5
When Omuro Yahachi of the Omuro family is selected as Mutsumikai Soke's successor, the conflict between the Kitakyushu and Wakamatsu begins.
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The Pledge
1968
Big Time Gambling Boss
7.2/14
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 off...
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Big Time Gambling Boss
1966
Love Eternal
0/0
A deep mist envelops the port city of Yokohama. The scent of crime is everywhere. As an executive member of a drug trafficking syndicate, Kano is pret...
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Love Eternal
1971
Bitter Tears of a Woman Gambler
10/1
Bunta Sugawara replaces Koji Tsuruta as the leading man for this sequel of Okoma, the Orphan Gambler.
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Bitter Tears of a Woman Gambler
1959
Farewell to Southern Tosa
0/0
Story of an ex-con trying to go straight, but of course the old ways die hard.
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Farewell to Southern Tosa
1964
The Flower and the Sword
0/0
A dangerous mobster threatens the life of a businessman's mother in this thriller. As Ryuji oversees the building of a bridge in Japan, a powerful gan...
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The Flower and the Sword
1956
Hungry Soul
6/8
Reiko, who tolerates abuse in her marriage to a man 23 years her senior, is friends with Mayumi, a beautiful widow. Reiko meets her husband’s business...
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Hungry Soul
1956
Okinawa no Tami
0/0
With the background of the Battle of Okinawa, he draws a semi-documentary image of each individual person under an unusual psychological state of war....
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Okinawa no Tami
1964
Ukyunosuke's Reverse Ichimonji Cut
6/1
In this exciting sequel to the popular samurai-ninja movie Ukyunosuke On Patrol, his mission to avenge his father's death continues. His discovery of...
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Ukyunosuke's Reverse Ichimonji Cut
1972
Terrifying Girls' High School: Women's Violent Classroom
6/5
Delinquent girl boss meets and conflicts with an orphan girl who lives an isolated life after the dramatic deaths of her parents. She plays the piano,...
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Terrifying Girls' High School: Women's Violent Classroom
1978
Japanese Godfather: Conclusion
7/2
The three-film saga comes to a conclusion as three leaders of the underworld battle it out to determine who will become Don of Japan.
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Japanese Godfather: Conclusion
1975
The Murder Corps
0/0
A violent upstart forms an alliance with the powerful Tensei-kai syndicate to fight on the front lines of an underworld war and take over all of Japan...
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The Murder Corps
1956
Hungry Soul, Part II
6.4/7
A continuation of Hungry Soul, from the same year. Reiko, who tolerates abuse in her marriage to a man 23 years her senior, is friends with Mayumi, a...
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Hungry Soul, Part II
1964
The Great Duel
6/1
In this gritty tale of gamblers battling in the samurai era, Okawa Hashizo gives perhaps his greatest performance as a gambler returning to his home t...
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The Great Duel
1963
Youth of the Beast
6.9/77
When a mysterious stranger muscles into two rival yakuza gangs, Tokyo's underworld explodes with violence.
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Youth of the Beast
1972
New Abashiri Prison Story: Honor and Humanity, Ammunition That Attracts the Storm
0/0
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1975
Cops vs. Thugs
6.2/23
When a lucrative waterfront development becomes available, the Kawade gang quickly use their political connections to secure the land. However, the ac...
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Cops vs. Thugs
1976
New Female Prisoner 701: Scorpion
5.4/8
Once again we focus on Nami Matsushima. This time she has a sister who goes missing and after getting too caught up in doing something about it, our i...
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New Female Prisoner 701: Scorpion
1955
Floating Clouds
7.7/94
A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young Japanese typist and promises to leave his wife. He do...
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Floating Clouds
1986
Surgical Designs in Flames
0/0
A story of the skilled brain surgeon, Todo, whose talent and ambition are put to test through a series of high risk surgical procedures.
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Surgical Designs in Flames
1970
Delinquent Girl Boss: Blossoming Night Dreams
6.6/6
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 by...
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Delinquent Girl Boss: Blossoming Night Dreams
1991
Check
0/0
Set in Osaka's Shinsekai, the film depicts the lives of Ayumu Tobita (Hidekazu Akai), who makes a living as a shogi gambler (shinken-shi), and Ryuzo K...
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Check
1959
Friendship of Jazz
0/0
Kenichi, who lives like a stray dog among fellow gangsters, finds his love for the first time while the police are trying to catch him on suspicion of...
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Friendship of Jazz
1961
Wind and waves of the South
0/0
Little dark-eyed boy Kazuo. Yes, he dreamed of the sea. However, like everyone here in the village. Kazuo only wanted to study first, to finish school...
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Wind and waves of the South
1953
Red-Light Bases
0/0
Story about a poor Japanese woman living near an American army base who resorts to prostitution.
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Red-Light Bases
1954
Itsuko to sono haha
0/0
An elderly woman devoted to her foster-daughter searches for a good husband for her.
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Itsuko to sono haha
1970
A Yakuza Goes Home
0/0
Shimamura & Mineko return to Kamagasaki in Osaka. In their return Shimamura quickly finds himself defending a lady in distress. During the skirmish he...
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A Yakuza Goes Home
1977
Japan's Don
7.5/2
A yakuza leader must balance his violent tactics necessary for the rough streets of 1960s Tokyo with the domestic needs of his daughters.
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Japan's Don
1964
Group Burglars Break the Magistrate's Office
8.5/2
Eight villains, former pirates, gather to attack the magistrate's office. They develop a plan and begin their actions in secret, making full use of th...
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Group Burglars Break the Magistrate's Office
1991
The Great Shogunate Battle
5.7/3
The early days of the Tokugawa shogunate are brought to light in this exciting historical tale of broken vows and violent swordplay. In an ambush remi...
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The Great Shogunate Battle
1956
Gyakukōsen
0/0
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Gyakukōsen
1960
The Rambler Rides Again
0/0
In this fifth episode of the "Wataridori" series, Taki Shinji (Kobayashi Akira) drifts north to Hokkaido, where he helps protect an Ainu village from...
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The Rambler Rides Again
1979
Troubleman Laughs and Kills
0/0
Kensho Yamashita's directorial debut.
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Troubleman Laughs and Kills
1975
The Viper Brothers and the Young General
0/0
The last in the series. Sugawara runs into two mahjong cheaters (Ichiro Araki and Mako Midori + sidekick Takuzo Kawatani) whom he takes for friends in...
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The Viper Brothers and the Young General
1961
Joe of Aces: Gambling for a Living
0/0
A marine security officer stranded on the ocean in a small boat is rescued by a crew of buccaneers.
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Joe of Aces: Gambling for a Living
1973
Dangerous Trade in Kobe
6.5/2
Using a lesser mobster as bait a government agent infiltrates a narcotics-smuggling gang to try to capture the boss. But his survival has a price.
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Dangerous Trade in Kobe
1963
Detective Bureau 2-3: A Man Weak to Money and Women
0/0
A sequel to Detective Bureau 2-3: Go To Hell Bastards!
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Detective Bureau 2-3: A Man Weak to Money and Women
1955
Policeman's Diary, Part 2
6/1
From runaway brides to a typhoon, the continued adventures of Ushikata police station.
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Policeman's Diary, Part 2
1966
Dianas of the Campus
0/0
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Dianas of the Campus
1966
Yakuza Vassal
0/0
A young samurai defends townsfolk from evil forces.
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Yakuza Vassal
1971
The Kanto Brothers' Code of Honor
0/0
The Kanto Brothers' Code of Honor (関東兄弟仁義 仁侠) is a 1971 film directed by Buichi Saitō. It is the ninth and last film in the Duty of Brotherhoo...
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The Kanto Brothers' Code of Honor
1953
At the End of the Clouds
0/0
A movie that depicts the tragic fate of many Yokaren flight-academy pilots.
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At the End of the Clouds
1967
The Domain: Where The Blade Enters
0/0
The Domain: Where The Blade Enters
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The Domain: Where The Blade Enters
1960
The Law's Bloody Wounds
0/0
An action masterpiece depicting the brotherhood of a younger brother (a student yakuza who breaks the gang rules and the law), and an older brother wh...
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The Law's Bloody Wounds
1969
The Fatal Raid
0/0
Kazama and three others defeated Yoshie Sangyo, but the Nishio group was disbanded due to public pressure, and the territory belonged to the Hirata gr...
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The Fatal Raid
1952
Violence
0/0
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Violence
1954
Student Double Suicide
0/0
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Student Double Suicide
1966
A Drop of Grease
0/0
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A Drop of Grease
1966
Prison Release Loyalty Offering
0/0
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Prison Release Loyalty Offering
1967
The Last Loyalty Offering
0/0
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The Last Loyalty Offering
1959
The Echo of Love
0/0
A pure love melodrama movie.
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The Echo of Love
1959
Merciless Bullet
0/0
Killer Kenji Sasagawa (Odaka) enters the room of a luxurious apartment in the silence of the night and, finding himself in front of the boss of the Sa...
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Merciless Bullet
1958
The Man Who Rode the Typhoon
0/0
This typhoon spectacle is bursting with the charm of tough guy Yujiro, a student of architecture at Hokkaido University, who takes on a conspiracy inv...
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The Man Who Rode the Typhoon
1972
Shōwa Gokudōshi
0/0
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