Joe Shishido
Beloved Japanese actor most recognizable for his intense, eccentric yakuza film roles and his artificially enlarged cheekbones. He has appeared in over 200 films but is best known in the West for his performance in the cult film Branded to Kill (1967). In Japan, he is also known by the nickname "Joe the Ace" (エースのジョー Ēsu no Jō) for his popular role in the Western Fast-Draw Guy (1961).
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.4624 |
| Birthday | 1933-12-06 |
| Place of Birth | Kita, Osaka, Japan |
| Also Known As | Jo Shishido, |
1959
Zattō ni hikarume
0/0
1959 Japanese movie
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Zattō ni hikarume
1977
The Alaska Story
8/2
A Japanese sailor finds a colony of Eskimos in the Arctic and decides to stay with them. He comes off at a certain moment to look for his luck in the...
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The Alaska Story
1964
Tale on Tokai Chivalry
0/0
The film is set in Fukagawa in the early Showa period and depicts a fateful confrontation between two men who rise and fall in a black stream, trying...
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Tale on Tokai Chivalry
1990
Codename 348 Female Detective Sashiba
0/0
Special female detective Hanyu Asuka, codenamed 348 (Sashiba), receives a secret mission from the police commissioner to solve the blackmail case invo...
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Codename 348 Female Detective Sashiba
2000
Debt King Part VII: Millennium
0/0
Takao, the owner of a coffee shop and brother-in-law to Anzai, the assistant manager of Hikari Bank, Osaka central branch, is caught in a scam by an o...
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Debt King Part VII: Millennium
1969
The Cleanup
10/1
A real all-star cast turns out for this modern yakuza yarn.
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The Cleanup
1996
The Trap
6.818/11
When a hooded stranger appears in private eye 'Mike' Hama's office with the cryptic challenge "I want you to look for me," Hama is drawn into a string...
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The Trap
1990
Run the Beast
0/0
The beast that lives in a cool man is awakening now!
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Run the Beast
1993
JACK KNIFE Wolves' Bet
0/0
Kojiro Shimizu challenges the work of Kenzo Kitakata, a popular writer who depicts romance, violence and friendships between men! Hard Boiled action w...
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JACK KNIFE Wolves' Bet
1969
100 Gamblers
7/1
Set in Kyushu during the early Showa period, the son of a boss who is killed after a greedy boss takes over his territory, takes over and takes reveng...
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100 Gamblers
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
1962
Kimagure tosei
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Kimagure tosei
1960
The Angry Rambler
0/0
Fourth installment of Nikkatsu's "Drifter" series, with Kobayashi Akira.
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The Angry Rambler
1962
Nuki uchi fūraibō
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Nuki uchi fūraibō
1967
A Colt Is My Passport
7.052/58
A gang lord hires Kamimura, a hit man, to take out a rival boss who's gotten greedy.
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A Colt Is My Passport
1956
Cell No. 8
0/0
A man and a woman meet through a strange fate. This unique melodrama depicts the course of their budding love in a corner of the big city.
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Cell No. 8
1961
Quick Draw Outlaw: Man of the Great Plains
0/0
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Quick Draw Outlaw: Man of the Great Plains
1967
Branded to Kill
7.204/255
After botching his latest assignment, a third-ranked Japanese hit man becomes the target of another assassin.
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Branded to Kill
2007
Mobile Detectives: The Movie 2
5/1
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Mobile Detectives: The Movie 2
1997
To Love
6.667/3
Mitsu works in a factory and has a crush on Tsutomu, a young man she met on the Tokyo streets. One day the two go out, and after some deception, Tsuto...
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To Love
1962
The Frozen Plains
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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The Frozen Plains
1993
Bored Hatamoto: Letter of Death
0/0
Bored Hatamoto film
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Bored Hatamoto: Letter of Death
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
2010
A Night In Nude: Salvation
6.1/11
A beautiful mother and her two daughters run a bar in a town. They have a dream of becoming rich, reforming the building, and living as celebrities. W...
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A Night In Nude: Salvation
1958
Rusty Knife
5.938/16
Udaka is a new, post-war city where corruption has already taken hold. A persistent district attorney wants to arrest and convict Katsumata, a laughin...
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Rusty Knife
1964
Cruel Gun Story
6.5/19
Businessmen arrange the early release from prison of Togawa, serving time for taking revenge on the truck driver whose carelessness confined Togawa's...
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Cruel Gun Story
1957
Small Rats of the Edo Town
0/0
The action of this historical drama takes place against the background of poverty and hunger in the city of Edo and depicts young people rebelling aga...
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Small Rats of the Edo Town
1991
The Killers
0/0
A brilliant hitman and a veteran former hitman join forces to take revenge on the murdered woman and challenge the criminal organization.
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The Killers
1964
Quick-Draw Joe: Sand Dune Duel
6/2
An exciting and fast-paced entertaining action in which G-Man Joe of Aces (Japanese version 007) challenges a terrible international mafia organizatio...
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Quick-Draw Joe: Sand Dune Duel
1963
Notorious Bastard
0/0
When Tornado Joe is wrongly accused of distributing counterfeit banknotes, he gets on a mission to clear his name and challenge the mastermind behind...
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Notorious Bastard
1988
Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis
6.25/22
A demonic reincarnation of a Japanese general from the 10th century appears in the early 20th century Tokyo with a mission to destroy the blooming cit...
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Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis
1964
Gate of Flesh
6.601/69
In the shady black markets and bombed-out hovels of post–World War II Tokyo, a tough band of prostitutes eke out a dog-eat-dog existence, maintaining...
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Gate of Flesh
1981
Edo Porn
5.963/40
The world-famous woodblock artist Hokusai (1760-1849), a widower in need of a steady income, lives with his daughter Oei in the house of his friend Ba...
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Edo Porn
1978
Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron
6.114/22
Kumokiri Nizaemon, a former samurai warrior, has abandoned his class to become the leader of a gang of thieves. He leads his outlaws in an attempt to...
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Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron
2006
A Surgeon Named Hitman
0/0
A trainee at a university hospital named Yoshioka, was in charge of a patient but the patient dies due to a failure with a heart transplant. One day,...
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A Surgeon Named Hitman
1963
Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards!
6.467/30
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!
1987
Fugitive Alien
3.875/16
An alien is pursued as a traitor by his own race because he refuses to kill humans.
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Fugitive Alien
1982
I Are You, You Am Me
6.625/12
9th-graders Kazuo and Kazumi take a tumble at a temple in a small seacoast town in Japan. Through supernatural intervention, their minds and bodies ar...
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I Are You, You Am Me
2005
Detective Office 5
0/0
In a small nook of Kawasaki Private investigator 591 and adultry specialist investigator 522 embark on separate investigations that leads them both to...
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Detective Office 5
1987
Star Force: Fugitive Alien II
4.667/6
In this second film compiled from episodes of a Japanese TV serial, Captain Joe, reformed interstellar marauder Ken and the rest of the crew of the Ba...
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Star Force: Fugitive Alien II
1967
Velvet Hustler
6.75/8
A young yakuza hitman named Goro does a job and needs to hideout away from Tokyo for a while. He hangs out with loose women and hard men and always ma...
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Velvet Hustler
1971
Bad Girl Mako
7/5
Patronized by a gang ruling the city, Mako delinquently plays around a night club every night with her bad company. One night, a guy Hideo gets closer...
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Bad Girl Mako
1970
Greatest Boss of Japan
0/0
A man who became the third boss faces off against delinquent foreigners and villains vying to rule the underworld in order to develop the port city.
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Greatest Boss of Japan
1967
Massacre Gun
7.2/14
Kuroda is a mob hitman who turns on his employers after being forced to execute his lover. Joining forces with his similarly wronged brothers, hot-hea...
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Massacre Gun
1955
Ofukuro
7/1
Shizuka, Eiichiro, and Mineko, their father and son, live modestly in a certain suburb, leading a dreary but happy life. Eiichiro is troubled by Shizu...
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Ofukuro
1969
Exiled to Hell
0/0
It is the end of the Taisho era (1912-1926), and at the Hanazuki-tei theatre in Asakusa, the famous performance of storyteller Koiso Kikuji and perfor...
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Exiled to Hell
1973
None But the Brave
6.333/6
Story is about how a revolutionist, played by Cheng Pei Pei, taking on the identity of a Captain's (Ou Wei) long lost sister who is actually dead. Che...
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None But the Brave
1962
Solo Traveler
0/0
12th in the Joe of Aces series.
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Solo Traveler
2012
The Final Judgement
1/1
26-year-old Shogo Washio sense danger from the expansion of Asian superpower nation Ouran. Shogo Washio teams up with Kenzo Nakagishi and establishes...
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The Final Judgement
1967
The Aftermath of War
0/0
After World War II life in Japan was hard. There was lawlessness, rapine, never enough food or money. One girl, raped by three men, called out the nam...
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The Aftermath of War
1970
Profile of a Boss' Son
10/1
Four years ago, Teppei Hondo killed two people from the Shinwa group for the murder of his brother. After serving a 3-year prison sentence, he conside...
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Profile of a Boss' Son
1974
New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1
5.711/19
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
1962
Last Round
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Last Round
1963
Youth of the Beast
6.914/87
When a mysterious stranger muscles into two rival yakuza gangs, Tokyo's underworld explodes with violence.
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Youth of the Beast
1985
I'm All Yours
4.667/3
A beautiful day Rokurou, a student, was to masturbate when a beautiful girl knocks on his door: You need a girl? And so begins the story. Rokurou did...
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I'm All Yours
1966
Your Life
0/0
A moodo/akushon yakuza picture with heavy emphasis on poignant seishun romance.
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Your Life
1961
I'll End in Hell
9/1
Joji Dan tries to find the heir of a prosperous Japanese millionaire who died in Mexico. However, the bandits want to take over the inheritance and Jo...
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I'll End in Hell
1974
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode
7.279/43
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
1961
Quick Draw Joe
0/1
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
1969
Yabanjin no Nekutai
0/0
Motozo Imamura, a.k.a. Gen, grew up in an upper-class family, but he never went to school and spent his days playing around. One day, he walked into a...
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Yabanjin no Nekutai
1969
Women of the Night - Butterfly Flower
0/0
A flower is a woman or a man is a butterfly... Love and melancholy bloom wildly in the nighttime garden! This is a moody entertainment work depicting...
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Women of the Night - Butterfly Flower
1971
Go As Messy As Messy Can Be
0/0
Comedy about a young man who causes pandemonium by raiding a bar patronized by his father, winning the favors of a hostess and ends up feeling the bre...
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Go As Messy As Messy Can Be
1967
Asia-Pol
7.25/6
Yang Ming Xuan intercepts a truckload of contraband, but the criminals stage a brazen helicopter attack, ruthlessly eliminating their own operatives a...
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Asia-Pol
1962
Jūdan no arashi
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Jūdan no arashi
1967
The Return of the Filthy Seven
9/1
A 1967 crime film
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The Return of the Filthy Seven
1961
The Crimson Plains
0/0
The action takes place in the highlands of the Chugoku region. While the owner of the Yazaki ranch is away, a gang of villains is trying to take over...
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The Crimson Plains
1977
A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness
5.467/15
A rookie golfer must cope with the stress of fame after a marketing executive transforms her into a sports celebrity.
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A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness
1991
God's Pinch Hitter
0/0
Ryo, Eiji and Katsuya assemble as usual in an underground car park, only this time, the woman who has always accompanied them is missing. Driving int...
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God's Pinch Hitter
1997
Remembering the Cosmos Flower
5/4
Akiko returns to her home village in Japan after seven years in South America, where she contracted AIDS from a blood transfusion. The town, thick wit...
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Remembering the Cosmos Flower
1956
Frankie the Milkman
8.5/2
Roppeita is big in size, clumsy and full of energy. When his grandfather orders him to move out to Tokyo to save a sinking milk delivery business a di...
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Frankie the Milkman
1985
Caribe: Symphony of Love
7/1
The love story of an architect and a fashion designer in Mexico.
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Caribe: Symphony of Love
1955
The Doctor
10/1
This movie attempts to present the reality of doctorless villages to society at large, while focusing on simple human love in a heartwarming episode t...
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The Doctor
1961
Crimson Pistol
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
1994
The Most Terrible Time in My Life
7.538/13
Maiku Hama is a private detective working in Yokohama. Hama comes to the aid of a Taiwanese waiter named Yang and agrees to track down his missing bro...
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The Most Terrible Time in My Life
2009
The Code
6.2/6
For 60 years, the group of detectives known as "Detective Office 5" has raised the bar for detective work. The agents of Detective Office 5 are a grou...
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The Code
1995
The Stairway to the Distant Past
7.222/9
Broke, with his vintage Nash convertible repossessed, private eye Mike Hama is reduced to combing the mean streets of the Yokohama waterfront on a bor...
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The Stairway to the Distant Past
1966
Asiapol Secret Service
0/0
A major international action film filmed on location in Hong Kong, depicting the activities of Asian Interpol, the Asian branch of a secret police org...
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Asiapol Secret Service
2001
Drowning Fish
7.667/3
When corporate executives are blackmailed into public displays of nudity on the busy streets of Shinjuku, the big guns are called out to locate "Obore...
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Drowning Fish
1959
Who is in the Background?
0/0
Based on the original work of Yasunori Kawauchi of "Moonlight Mask", this is the second in the "Ginza Whirlwind Child (Mitsutogai)" series in which As...
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Who is in the Background?
1992
The Setting Sun
5.6/5
A Japanese soldier is forced to question alliances when he meets and falls in love with the leader of the rebel movement.
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The Setting Sun
1977
Black Jack: The Visitor in the Eye
6.2/5
Komori Chiaki is a budding tennis student. However, one day while training, her coach hits a ball into her eye on accident. At the hospital, the news...
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Black Jack: The Visitor in the Eye
1962
Traces of Lead
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Traces of Lead
1969
Chivalrous Pride
0/0
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Chivalrous Pride
1986
Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast
6.857/7
During the fervently nationalist months leading up to World War II, a rebellious teenager is transferred to a new primary school in a small Inland Sea...
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Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast
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
1960
The Rambler Rides Again
10/1
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
1966
Love and Desire in the Night Mist
0/0
A film from Nikkatsu's "moodo akushon" (mood/action) subgenre.
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Love and Desire in the Night Mist
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
1968
Retaliation
5.938/16
Emerging from a stint in prison, yakuza lieutenant Sumukawa discovers that his gang has disintegrated. An ambitious type, he quickly hooks up with ano...
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Retaliation
1973
Kigeki: koko kara hajimaru monogatari
0/0
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Kigeki: koko kara hajimaru monogatari
1955
Tsukiyo no kasa
0/0
Housewives from four neighboring households casually gather at an old well at Kaneko's house in a residential area on the outskirts of Tokyo. If two p...
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Tsukiyo no kasa
1958
Voice Without a Shadow
6.5/8
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
1985
Yakyuukyou no Uta
0/0
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Yakyuukyou no Uta
1962
Glass-Hearted Johnny
0/0
Joe Shishido is an ambitious bike racetrack tout who becomes inadvertently involved in a triangle with a vulnerable prostitute (Izumi Ashikawa) and he...
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Glass-Hearted Johnny
1975
Conflagration
7/5
Global South guerrillas hijack the Japanese oil tanker Arabian Light, threatening to blow it up in Tokyo Bay, unless the Cabinet complies with an econ...
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Conflagration
1970
Charming Men
9/1
One day, when Goro (Kiyoshi Atsumi) returns to his poor tenement house from a trip on a deep-sea tuna boat, his neighbor's daughter Haruko (Mitsuko Ba...
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Charming Men
1959
The Rambling Guitarist
6.857/7
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
1991
The Notorious Bored Samurai 6
0/0
Sawatari Shusui was told about 7,000 ryo of buried gold by Osuke, who claimed to be a princess of the Fujiwara family. Shusui speculates that powerfu...
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The Notorious Bored Samurai 6
1955
Policeman's Diary
7/5
Lending money, job hunting for civilians and babysitting. All these things are usually not listed on a policeman's job description. But for the office...
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Policeman's Diary
1965
Murder Unincorporated
6.5/2
When the mysterious “Joe of Spades” (Jo Shishido) executes one of the bosses of a powerful syndicate, his colleagues, fearing for their own lives, cal...
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Murder Unincorporated
1980
Nurse's Husband
7/1
“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
1956
The Happy Dancers
0/0
Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Tokyo baka odori" by Haruo Oka and Chiyoko Shimakura.
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The Happy Dancers
1956
Kingorô no omawari-san
0/0
Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Wakai omawari-san" by Shiro Sone.
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Kingorô no omawari-san
1956
Called to the Stand
8/1
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
1956
Kanshō fujin
0/0
Japanese drama film.
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Kanshō fujin
1962
Danger Pays
7/6
Joe, Okita, and Serizawa hear of the armed robbery of a truck carrying one billion eighty million yen's worth of Mint paper. Knowing that the thugs wi...
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Danger Pays
1977
High Seas Hijack
10/2
Terrorists hijack an oil tanker and threaten to blow it up unless Japan meets their demands.
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High Seas Hijack
1955
The Maid's Kid
8.333/3
In order to pay back Mrs. Kajiki for her good deed in the past, Hatsu moves from her village in Akita to Tokyo to start working as a maid for her fami...
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The Maid's Kid
1959
Tokyo no Kodoku
0/0
A coming-of-age story about two newcomers to the world of professional baseball who compete for Rookie of the Year honors and love.
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Tokyo no Kodoku
1977
Ore no sora
0/0
Based on the manga of the same name. Originally published in the Japanese magazine Weekly Playboy. It follows Ippei Yasuda, son of a prominent family,...
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Ore no sora
1990
Nozomi Witches
0/0
Nozomi is a former actress who moves back to Japan from New Zealand. Upon arriving, she meets her fellow high school student neighbor Ryotaro Shiba, w...
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Nozomi Witches
1970
Shameless School: Health Check in the Nude
8/1
In this outing of Harenchi Gakuen the students undergo a health check after school, but all is not what it seems. Teacher 'Beard Godzilla' has kicked...
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Shameless School: Health Check in the Nude
1971
New Shameless School
9/1
Former students of the notorious Harenchi Gakuen college open a new school for dissident youths after their former school is ruined by disputes.
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New Shameless School
1990
Neo Chinpira: Zoom Goes the Bullet
6.7/6
Junko pretends to be a yakuza and gets more than he bargained for when he is tasked with avenging the murder of a fellow gang member. If he turns the...
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Neo Chinpira: Zoom Goes the Bullet
1976
The Sea of Genkai
5.8/5
Two yakuza, one of whom frequently reflects on an uncomfortable past taking advantage of Korean women, meet a stowaway on Japanese soil from across th...
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The Sea of Genkai
1958
The Boy Who Came Back
7.571/7
Nobuo is a hot-headed hoodlum fresh out of reform school who struggles to make a clean break with his tearaway past.
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The Boy Who Came Back
1989
Red Crow and the Ghost Ship
7/3
A fantastic adventure of a brother and sister flying a ghost ship, guided by a red crow, in search for an old captain. The ghost ship was designed by...
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Red Crow and the Ghost Ship
1964
Tiger of the Sea
0/0
A group of pirates sail the treacherous Pacific ocean in search for wealth.
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Tiger of the Sea
1971
Okusama wa 18 sai: shinkon kyoshitsu
0/0
Laughter is brought about by a teacher-husband and student-wife couple.
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Okusama wa 18 sai: shinkon kyoshitsu
1957
Kawakami Tetsuji, No. 16
0/0
A biopic about Japanese baseball player, Tetsuharu Kawakami.
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Kawakami Tetsuji, No. 16
1966
The Dragon and the Tiger
7/1
A young gambler returns from prison to find his gang scattered, and many gone over to his old rival. But their rivalry is not only a matter of gamblin...
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The Dragon and the Tiger
1960
The Rambler in the Sunset
0/0
The young rambler, Shinji Taki, with his guitar arrives a hot spa town at the foot of Mount Aizu Bandai. Of course he solves the problems in the town...
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The Rambler in the Sunset
1960
Wind of Volcano
0/0
An airplane loaded with 50 million yen for the reconstruction of Amami Oshima crashes en route from Kagoshima, Kyushu, but neither the money nor the r...
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Wind of Volcano
1960
The Guitarist from the Sea
3.5/6
Plans to build a touristic hot spring on the island of Izu Oshima run afoul of the Kobe yakuza group, which intends to use the island as a relay base...
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The Guitarist from the Sea
1960
Ryuji, the Gun Slinger
8/1
When Ryuji - the Gun Slinger, a drug addict leaves hospital to which he was taken after a gunfight by a notorious killer named Gin of Colt, he is empl...
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Ryuji, the Gun Slinger
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
1971
A Man's World
8/1
Tadao Konno (Yujiro Ishihara) had been staying in Canada for 5 years since his girlfriend's death. She was killed for Gang's boss, Shiraishi. Now Tada...
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A Man's World
1957
The Naked Woman and the Gun
7/1
A Tokyo newspaper reporter goes after the Japanese king of cocaine trafficking but he's tricked by a woman who works for the gangster and gets framed...
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The Naked Woman and the Gun
1971
Blood for Blood
7/1
The Akiba and Shimura crime families run the streets of “K City”. With the construction of new buildings and new factories underway, the city has spro...
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Blood for Blood
1969
The Rough One
10/1
A tale of wannabe yakuza youths. When not cooking up scams with his buddies, Zenkichi develops a crush on Taro's disgusted sister, Miki. But soon the...
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The Rough One
1972
New Hoodlum Soldier Story: Firing Line
7.107/14
The story is presented as a voiced-over narrative by Arita (Takahiro Tamura), speaking long after the events of the film. In a remote army base in Man...
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New Hoodlum Soldier Story: Firing Line
1977
Gambling Code and Feuds
7/1
It is the first Toei yakuza film directed by Akinori Matsuo, who was active in Nikkatsu action movies. It is a local yakuza movie made following Okina...
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Gambling Code and Feuds
1991
Neo Chinpira 2: Zoom Goes the Bullet
0/0
In the sequel to 1990's classic Neo Chinpira, Junko (Sho Aikawa) attempts to take out Kazama and then goes on the run. However, he quickly begins to f...
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Neo Chinpira 2: Zoom Goes the Bullet
1967
My Sweetheart
0/0
It had been a year and four months since Mitsuo was last on a movie set. Welcomed back by director Ishizaki and his film crew, Mitsuo is excited to st...
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My Sweetheart
1960
The Man with a Sinister Laugh
8/1
After getting out of prison, a young yakuza tries to find out who killed his girlfriend, attempts not to get drawn back into crime, and to find his mi...
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The Man with a Sinister Laugh
1960
The Gun Like Lightning
0/0
Sadao, is saved from death at the hands of Goro, a killer belonging to a rival gang by Joji just released from prison who has resolved to turn over a...
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The Gun Like Lightning
1959
The Human Cyclone
0/0
The first in the Ginza Whirlwind Child series. A poignant action giant depicting the activities of Mait Guy Akira, who calls people to Ginza Boring Ma...
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The Human Cyclone
1971
Monk's Paradise
7/1
A genius gambler and born hunter is a Buddhist monk by occupation. A raunchy comedy about a lecherous monk who, despite serving the solemn Buddha, kee...
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2007
Kisaragi
7/34
The fanclub of a deceased Japanese idol gather together for the one year anniversary of her death. By combining forces they try to unearth the true ci...
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Kisaragi
1983
Our Wedding
8.5/2
On her wedding day, Makiko is stabbed by a woman in wedding dress. The wound isn't serious but the attacker blows herself up and can't be identified....
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Our Wedding
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
1966
Cat Girls Gamblers: Abandoned Fangs of Triumph
6.286/7
Yukiko is on her way to meet Boss Gunji. Judging by her appearance, no one would suspect that this beautiful young woman, sitting quietly in a suburba...
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Cat Girls Gamblers: Abandoned Fangs of Triumph
1989
You'll Fall For Me
7/2
Meet Chika. She thinks she's been jinxed: she's going to be dumped on Christmas Eve. Enter Tomako, who likes reading and making pudding. Although they...
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You'll Fall For Me
1965
The Dragon of Macao
8/3
Ryu (Akira Kobayashi) sets foot on the Yokohama port with a suitcase filled with 300 thousand dollars. He was sent by a jewelry company in Hong Kong t...
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The Dragon of Macao
1966
Blood Shed
7/1
Ginjiro was born to a family of nobility, though he yearned for freedom. To earn this freedom, he affiliates himself with the worst of the worst. Swe...
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Blood Shed
1994
Turning Point
7/2
A middle-aged journalist looking to make her big break. After working the same beat on the "women's page", Yumiko gets promoted to editorials.
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Turning Point
1980
The First Catch
2.7/3
Based on the comic book series of the same name by Yûsuke Aoyagi.
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The First Catch
1981
Blue Jeans Memory
0/0
A trio of high school boys get summer jobs at a seaside resort. Soon, however, they learn that the woman who runs it is in financial trouble. The thre...
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Blue Jeans Memory
1970
Shameless School
5/2
Comedy of high school where students and teachers run wild, based on a popular comic strip.
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Shameless School
1970
Shameless School: Tackle Kiss
8/1
Students against teachers in the wildest kiss-stealing, petting-orgy ever.
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Shameless School: Tackle Kiss
1986
Leave My Girl Alone
7.5/2
Hitomi, a former orphan who is trying to leave behind her delinquent ways, one day agrees to tutor a wealthy young boy who has just become an orphan h...
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Leave My Girl Alone
1967
Burning Clouds
0/0
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Burning Clouds
1986
Take It Easy
0/0
Coming of age film about rock musicians.
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Take It Easy
1984
Sukanpin Walk
7.5/2
Yuji decides to run away from home to become an actor. Along the way, he meets Yoshio, an aspiring rock musician and Ami, an idol who, despite her suc...
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Sukanpin Walk
2005
Flower & Snake II
6.5/39
The beautiful Shizuko and her husband Toyama Takayoshi have a loving relationship, But Takayoshi is getting older and isn't always able to perform. Hi...
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Flower & Snake II
1956
Shiawase wa doko ni
9/1
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Shiawase wa doko ni
1991
Danger Point: The Road to Hell
7.5/4
Killers Ken and Joji undertake the killing of a man named Sakai. He utters some interesting last words before being shot dead, leading Ken and Joji on...
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Danger Point: The Road to Hell
1957
The Champion
6.4/5
Eikichi Yamashiro, who is a former contender for the boxing title, works as a manager at a Club Champion owned by his fiancé Natsuko’s father. He lost...
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The Champion
1972
New Abashiri Prison Story: Honor and Humanity, Ammunition That Attracts the Storm
10/1
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1970
New Prison Walls of Abashiri: High Stakes at Abashiri
8/1
Prisoner Katsuji must fend for himself and his prison mates in the fierce battle involving a family feud.
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New Prison Walls of Abashiri: High Stakes at Abashiri
1964
Jinsei Gekijo
7/1
1964 Nikkatsu Theater of Life adaptation.
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Jinsei Gekijo
1956
Confession
0/0
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Confession
1970
A Hoodlum At The Risk Of His Life
9/1
A reporter is framed for murder while investigating organized crime. Upon being released from prison the plan for his revenge unravels.
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A Hoodlum At The Risk Of His Life
1957
Temptation
8/4
Shokichi, the owner of the clothing store, lives with his daughter Hideko and plans to open an art gallery. One day, Hideko led a handsome art student...
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Temptation
1992
8 Man - For All Lonely Nights
4.125/8
After Tokyo police officer Yokoda is killed in the line of duty, his chief decides give Yokoda's body to Dr. Tani for use in a secret scientific exper...
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8 Man - For All Lonely Nights
1960
The Guitarist and the Rancher
0/0
Rambler Shinji arrives in town armed with nothing but a guitar. With assistance from an old gun-for-hire friend, he sets about to stop the mob from tu...
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The Guitarist and the Rancher
1959
Wounded Beast
0/0
A tense action game that skillfully intertwines the human love between a criminal, his sister and his lover, and the desperate pursuit of a detective...
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Wounded Beast
1959
Gun Number Zero
0/0
Eric, an American, arrives at an international tourist hotel and loses his self-defense Colt. It was Kudaira, a beggar, who discovered it, and immedia...
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Gun Number Zero
1959
Mighty Rules
0/0
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Mighty Rules
1984
Again
0/0
An anthology that embodies the essence of Nikkatsu action films with a stylish flair, this movie follows an aging hitman (Jō Shishido) on a quest to f...
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Again
1958
Orera wa nagashi no ninkisha
0/0
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Orera wa nagashi no ninkisha
1958
Taiyō o buchi otose
0/0
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Taiyō o buchi otose
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
1956
Seishun wo warera ni
10/1
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Seishun wo warera ni
1992
The Gambler
0/0
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The Gambler
2002
Yakuza Jihad
8/1
The first in the "Gokudo Seisen" series, a hard-line action OV that presents the original draft of Shigenori Takechi under the supervision of Takashi...
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Yakuza Jihad
1962
Mexico Drifter
8/1
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Mexico Drifter
1961
Gun of Nosappu
10/1
Set against the backdrop of the vast wilderness of Hokkaido and the Sea of Okhotsk, Ace Joe arrives in the town of Nosappu and explodes with exhilarat...
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Gun of Nosappu
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
1959
Machi ga nemuru toki
0/0
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2011
Mobile Detectives: The Movie 3
5/1
Kai, Mei, and Yui are high school students. The three girls are also detectives and they solve cases using their reasoning abilities. It's also a secr...
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Mobile Detectives: The Movie 3
1958
Breasts and Bullets
0/0
Japanese crime film
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Breasts and Bullets
1960
Tales of a Gunman: The Man Without Tomorrow
9/1
The fourth film in the Tales of a Gunman series. When Ryuji throws his pistol into the sea, he is attacked by a man who calls himself Sabu and says th...
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Tales of a Gunman: The Man Without Tomorrow
1995
Fukushu no Teio
6/1
Tatsuya Shijo was leading a blissful life with her wife and daughter. But all hell came down when a madman murdered his wife and daughter and bizarrel...
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Fukushu no Teio
1957
Muhō Ichidai
0/0
The movie is about a man who started a brothel to make money out of his poor circumstances in the late Meiji period.
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Muhō Ichidai
1961
Gambler in the Sea
0/0
Joe, a master diver, explodes his fighting spirit and friendship across raging seas and scorching deserts in this gorgeous and entertaining epic.
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Gambler in the Sea
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
1961
Pacific Porters
10/1
Tetsuji Tachibana was fired as a pilot after Jim gave false testimony in an accident caused by Captain Jim's intoxication. Only Junpei Nambu, the edit...
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Pacific Porters
1960
The Cards Will Tell
0/0
A 1960 crime film
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The Cards Will Tell
1994
Mahjong Demon 3: Extraterritorial Mahjong
0/0
Shoichi Sakurai, who started his own trading company and is obsessed with business, is approached with a mineral resource deal. However, it is a trap...
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Mahjong Demon 3: Extraterritorial Mahjong
1982
Fossilized Wilderness
8/1
Detective Nishina Sosuke, the director of the Metropolitan Police Department's Investigation Division 1, is suddenly attacked by a trio of men at his...
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Fossilized Wilderness
1965
Inochi Shirazu no Rokudenashi
0/0
Bastard tablets that hunt down the crooks behind the gambling world of horse racing, bicycle racing, and car racing.
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Inochi Shirazu no Rokudenashi
1988
Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis
6.25/22
A demonic reincarnation of a Japanese general from the 10th century appears in the early 20th century Tokyo with a mission to destroy the blooming cit...
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Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis
1988
This Heartbeat
0/0
The love and friendships of high school students
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This Heartbeat
1968
魔性の女
7/1
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魔性の女
1963
Akai ka to Rokudenashi
0/0
An action comedy that depicts two men fascinated by a woman in red high heels who are convinced to confront a vicious yakuza gang.
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Akai ka to Rokudenashi
1959
We Live Today
0/0
In a fictional mining city in northern Kanto, a Tokyo drifter named Shiro (Ishihara Yūjirō), caught in a conflict between two transportation companies...
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We Live Today
1972
The Witty Samurai
0/0
The story of a timid samurai attempting to rid his name of the stigma attached to it.
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The Witty Samurai
1963
Hell Festival
0/0
A master rifleman challenges a family of yakuza who have stolen his favorite gun.
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Hell Festival
1965
Kenjū burai jō nagare-sha no mure
0/0
1965 Japanese movie
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Kenjū burai jō nagare-sha no mure
1974
Center of Tokyo
0/0
Set in the downtown area in the heart of Tokyo, this film depicts the lives of poor but kind-hearted people.
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1964
Nukî uchi ryuji - kênju no otâ
0/0
A man who has left the yakuza world is drawn back into the fray for his younger brother in this gunfighting action film.
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Nukî uchi ryuji - kênju no otâ
1965
Modern Yakuza: Chivalry
0/0
Zenroku Nichigami, a charismatic con artist, is tasked with collecting a debt from the elusive Shishiro Oba. As he delves deeper, Zenroku uncovers a w...
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2007
Switching – Goodbye Me
6.5/11
After his parent's divorce, Kazuo Saito moves with his mother from Onomichi and must leave his girlfriend behind. At his new school, Kazuo is surprise...
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Switching – Goodbye Me
2006
Proud Ambition 2
0/0
Tatsusaburo Sunagawa, the assistant underboss of the Morita Family, ousts Yukichi Matsuura, Matsuura Family head, from his position as underboss of th...
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Proud Ambition 2
2006
Proud Ambition
0/0
Osaka, 1993. Sunagawa, assistant to the Morita Family underboss, proposes the establishment of a "Commercial Mutual Aid Association" as a future sourc...
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Proud Ambition
1999
Hometown
0/0
Tokiko Haebaru, a 76-year-old grandmother living in Nago, Okinawa. She soon embarks on a marathon across Japan.
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Hometown
1970
Kikeki: onna mo tsurai wa
0/0
Comedy directed by Mio Ezaki.
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Kikeki: onna mo tsurai wa
2004
Alumni Association
0/0
The final chapter of director Mukai Hiroshi's trilogy on the theme of aging, in which "Going West" raised the issue of human memory and "Hometown" add...
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Alumni Association
2005
Proud Ambition 3
0/0
Cheating by Kageyama, a member of the Amagasaki Daimon-gumi, is discovered at the gambling den of the Matsuura family. The Matsuura family is subordi...
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Proud Ambition 3
2006
Proud Ambition 4
0/0
After the retirement of boss Tokumaru, Sunagawa succeeds him as the sixth head of the Morita family, and Kano Kenji seizes the opportunity to plot the...
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Proud Ambition 4
2004
Shin Japan's Don: Waves
0/0
First film of the yakuza series starring Hiroki Matsukata.
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Shin Japan's Don: Waves
2004
Shin Japan's Don 2: Ruthless
0/0
Second film of the yakuza series starring Hiroki Matsukata.
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Shin Japan's Don 2: Ruthless
2005
Shin Japan's Don 4
0/0
Fourth film of the yakuza series starring Hiroki Matsukata.
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Shin Japan's Don 4
2005
Shin Japan's Don 5
0/0
Fifth film of the yakuza series starring Hiroki Matsukata.
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Shin Japan's Don 5
2005
Shin Japan's Don 6
0/0
Sixth film of the yakuza series starring Hiroki Matsukata.
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Shin Japan's Don 6
2006
Proud Ambition 5
0/0
Kano Kenji, second-in-command of the Matsuura family, is released from prison and comes into conflict with Sunagawa Tatsusaburo, 6th leader of the Mor...
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Proud Ambition 5
1967
Outlaw's Gold
0/0
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Outlaw's Gold
1963
Tale on Kanto Chivalry
0/0
This is Akira Kobayashi's first leading role in a gangster film in the ninkyo-eiga genre. Together with Joe Shishido, he stars in a film about the fat...
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Tale on Kanto Chivalry
1965
Three Stray Dogs
0/0
A gripping action film starring Akira Kobayashi, Joe Shishido, and Koji Wada. A man accused of diamond theft and imprisoned escapes during transport,...
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Three Stray Dogs
1969
Yakuza Wanderer: Villainous Livelihood
9/1
A humorous yakuza action melodrama with gangsters, drugs and that old comedy-standby, white slavery.
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Yakuza Wanderer: Villainous Livelihood
2001
Shibuya Midnight War Dark Street
0/0
Shigemitsu Kamio, a member of a Shibuya color-gang who is respected even by other chīmers (delinquents), carries the bitter secret of having killed hi...
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Shibuya Midnight War Dark Street
1963
Chivalrous Outlaw
0/0
A romantic story about a knight who becomes involved in the murder of his brother's wife and ultimately confronts the local yakuza.
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Chivalrous Outlaw
1968
Stardust Wharf
8/1
Hamada, Izumi, and Aki Jo, a rising singer from Toshiba Records, form a fresh trio who risk their youthful energy to bravely confront violence in this...
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Stardust Wharf
1969
Biographies of Killers
0/0
1969 Nikkatsu yakuza movie
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1969
Ex Convict: Sword Storm
0/0
1969 yakuza movie.
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Ex Convict: Sword Storm
1986
Katayoku dake no tenshi
0/0
A divorced man meets a kindly Korean prostitute whom he cannot get from his mind. Things don’t prove to be straightforward for either of them.
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Katayoku dake no tenshi
1955
His Highness Surabaya
0/0
Hisaya Morishige is Kyutaro, a nuclear physicist and his twin brother, Eiji, a con man. Eiji finally hits on his most elaborate scheme yet, to pretend...
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His Highness Surabaya
1954
My Pistol Is Quick
0/0
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My Pistol Is Quick
1954
Women's House
6/1
After Shuichiro moved to Tokyo, the Tanno family became completely female, including Mrs. Tanno, Shuichiro's daughter-in-law Manzuko, painter Takashir...
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Women's House
1954
The Black Current
10/1
A reporter Takuo, who is sleeping in the newspaper room of the Maichō newspaper company, receives a sudden report from a reporter that the missing Aki...
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The Black Current
1969
Thirteen Times a Loser
0/0
Mineoka Group executive Okitsu Seiji is imprisoned for the 13th time for attacking rival Kuronuma. While in prison, he learns that the Kuronuma Group...
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Thirteen Times a Loser
1959
Crime Reporter
0/0
The story centers on the fierce competition among newspaper reporters stationed at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department as they race to break majo...
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