Hiroshi Kawaguchi

The new frontier of Venus has degenerated into a dystopia ravaged by the civil war between Ishtar and Aphrodia. Bubbly reporter Susan Sommers arrives...

Genre: Action

Cast: Katsuhide Uekusa

In 221 BC, Qin Shihuangdi conquered the rest of China. Qin's great accomplishments and also his serious faults are showed in this film. Qin adopted...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

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

Set in 1926 when Japanese tradition was much stronger, this drama looks at the inner workings of a small family, especially the relationship between...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiko Kishi

Tied to a mountain between her brutalizing spouse and her secret lover, disaster strikes; the authorities accuse her of murder and prompt a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

The cunning detective Akeichi must foil a kidnapping plot orchestrated by the notorious jewel thief known as Black Lizard.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Machiko Kyō

Kinichi and Akiko meet when they visit their fathers in prison. After successfully gambling on a bicycle race, they spend an enjoyable day together...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroshi Kawaguchi

A Toho film featuring the comedy duo Konto 55, (コント55号), comprised of comedians Kinichi Hagimoto and Jiro Sakagami.

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Kinichi Hagimoto

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 Indian prince leaves his world of comfort and riches behind to wander and meditate for six years in search of spiritual enlightenment. Siddartha...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Shimada is a student of U College. When the college's baseball team wins the day, he and his friend Ito drug two girls they met at the game.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroshi Kawaguchi

The first story concerns an attractive young woman who works in a Tokyo nightclub. Her plan for a solid financial future has a double whammy. In the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

1957 drama from director Kôzaburô Yoshimura

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroshi Kawaguchi

Ichikawa's 1956 adaptation of Nihonbashi was the first to take the work of Kyoka Izumi— until then regarded as a writer of common tragic...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Chikage Awashima

Aya successfully stages a fashion show in Osaka and in the train on her way home to Tokyo accidentally treads on a man's foot. The man whose name is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Kyō

One night, three wives, Matsuyo, Keiko and Mari, receive a mysterious telephone call. The voice tells them that she has their husbands with her and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Fujiko Yamamoto

A woman has to give up her dream of becoming an actress when her family goes into debt, but she catches the eye of a businessman while working at a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fujiko Yamamoto

A crime boss gets out of prison and tries to find who from his organization betrayed him.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ayako Wakao

The story of three sportsman brothers living in the Ginza. One day, the three meet a raving beauty on separate occasions and are unaware they have...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

A romantic comedy depicting the variant and whimsical daily lives of the Japanese mademoiselles in the Metropolis of Tokyo. How they react against...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ayako Wakao

In a rural district of Tokyo, the owner of a farm is abandoned by his two daughters who are attracted to the life of the big city.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Ayako Wakao portrays a downtown rice ball shop girl whose heart is set on her business. Involved in her life are three young men—stage actor...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

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 the forties in Japan, a group of brilliantly qualified university students are selected to break all ties with their previous lives and form the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ayako Wakao

A young offender who is already guilty of many crimes is sentenced again for rape. Upon his release from prison, a year later, the victim waits to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroshi Kawaguchi

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

During the bloody era of the Tokugawa Shogunate collapse, a man appeared capable of overthrowing a corrupt government and ending the feud between the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

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Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

A young delinquent wants to avenge his sister from a college student who abandoned her after leaving her pregnant. To do this, he decides to seduce...

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Cast: Hiroshi Kawaguchi

A journalist decides to do his own investigation after a series of strange murders are committed during a local election campaign.

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Cast: Hiroshi Kawaguchi

Obscure Masumura film shot in 1961.

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Cast: Hiroshi Kawaguchi

Heitaro, who had served his firm loyally for 30 years, reaches the retirement age. He has four unmarried daughters and decides to split his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sō Yamamura

Genre: War

Cast: Kōjirō Hongō

Genre: Action

Cast: Tatsuo Umemiya

Adaptation of the Yukio Mishima novel.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Koji Shima movie

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Cast: Hiroshi Kawaguchi

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Cast: Machiko Kyō

After the boxing champion retires, the head of a powerful gym, Minegishi (So Yamamura), recommends Yamanaka (Hiroshi Kawaguchi), who is no longer in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroshi Kawaguchi

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Hiroshi Kawaguchi

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Takumi Takahara

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Fujiko Yamamoto

1958 Japanese movie

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Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

Japan, 1701. A group of samurai become rônin after their lord is forced to commit seppuku for assaulting a court official, who will become the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

Momoko and Asako are half sisters, daughters of the famous architect Tsuneo Mizuhara, who also have another half sister in Kyôto, Wakako, whom...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Kyō

1961 Japanese movie

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Cast: Kōjirō Hongō

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