Saburo Date
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 4.013 |
| Birthday | 1924-03-27 |
| Place of Birth | Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan |
| Also Known As | Saburô Date, Takeshi Date, 伊達三郎, 伊达三郎, 伊達岳志, |
1962
Ninja, A Band of Assassins
6.435/23
Warlord Oda Nobunaga seeks to unite a fractured Japan. A young man trained in the arts of ninjitsu is manipulated by a ninja master into attempting to...
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Ninja, A Band of Assassins
1963
An Actor's Revenge
6.542/59
In Edo Japan, a kabuki actor seeks revenge against the three men who drove his parents to their deaths years ago.
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An Actor's Revenge
1964
Zatoichi and the Chest of Gold
6.826/46
Ichi travels to the village of Itakura to pay his respects at the grave of Kichizo, a man he killed two years ago. When some tax money is stolen while...
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Zatoichi and the Chest of Gold
1959
Odd Obsession
6.241/27
A middle-aged husband of a younger woman finds her youth intimidating to the point that he cannot become aroused. His solution involves the introducti...
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Odd Obsession
1953
A Geisha
7.53/50
Eiko seeks out Miyoharu, a geisha, and asks to be her apprentice. When she is ready to receive clients, both women want the right to refuse certain me...
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A Geisha
1954
The Woman in the Rumor
7.397/34
Yukiko's fiance learns her mother runs a geisha house and ends their engagement. She despises what her mother does until one of her clients shows inte...
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The Woman in the Rumor
1962
The Tale of Zatoichi Continues
7.006/81
Returning to the village where a year before he had killed Hirate, a much-admired opponent, Zatoichi encounters another swordsman and former rival in...
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The Tale of Zatoichi Continues
1963
Shinobi no Mono 2: Vengeance
6.636/11
[Period covered: 1582-1594]. As the film opens, the warlod Nobunaga Oda rides to Iga Ayanokuni shrine. He is asked if he thinks he has destroyed all t...
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Shinobi no Mono 2: Vengeance
1966
Zatoichi's Pilgrimage
7/39
Zatoichi's trek through 88 temples to atone for his violent past is interrupted as he stumbles into a village terrorized by a violent yakuza boss.
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Zatoichi's Pilgrimage
1967
A Certain Killer
6.1/10
A former soldier, reduced to working at a restaurant post-war, becomes a contract killer for the yakuza gangs he's in contact with.
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A Certain Killer
1963
Sleepy Eyes of Death 1: The Chinese Jade
5.2/10
Nemuri Kyoshiro, a youthful and cynical ronin with unparalleled skill, is approached by both sides in a game of corruption, ambition, and double cross...
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Sleepy Eyes of Death 1: The Chinese Jade
1964
Sleepy Eyes of Death 3: Full Circle Killing
6/8
A decapitation at the hands of the shogun's monstrous misbegotten son kicks off the action and draws nomadic Nemuri Kyoshiro (Raizô Ichikawa) into mor...
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Sleepy Eyes of Death 3: Full Circle Killing
1965
Sword Devil
6.1/10
Hanpei is a gentle young samurai that loves flowers. One day, he witnesses an old man's quick draw of the sword. He is so impressed that he becomes th...
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Sword Devil
1958
Conflagration
7.036/28
Learning of his family's collapse, acolyte Goichi, sent to study silently at the Temple of the Golden Pavilion, must endure acute psychological distre...
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Conflagration
1963
Shinsengumi Chronicles
6.5/11
As winds of change sweep Japan, an honest man joins the Shinsengumi out of admiration for its leader, and because he wants to live and die as a samura...
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Shinsengumi Chronicles
1985
Typhoon Club
6.5/43
Offering a caustic immersion into the lives of disaffected junior high students on the cusp of adulthood, the film takes place over the five-day perio...
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Typhoon Club
1959
Samurai Vendetta
7.167/12
Two amiable samurai wind up on opposite sides of the vendetta between Lord Asano's retainers and the family of Lord Kira that led to the famous reveng...
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Samurai Vendetta
1973
The Bodyguard
4.5/18
Karate master and anti-drug vigilante Chiba returns to his home in Japan, where he holds a press conference announcing his intention to wipe out the n...
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The Bodyguard
1970
Masseur’s Curse
0/0
One murky night, Soetsu, a blind acupuncturist and money lender, calls on Shinzaemon Fukami, a Hatamoto samurai, to collect some money. But Fukami is...
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Masseur’s Curse
1964
Shinobi no Mono 4: Siege
6.167/9
[Period covered: 1614-1615] 4th film in the shinobi no mono series Tokugawa Ieyasu is now the ruler of all Japan. But one last loose thread must be t...
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Shinobi no Mono 4: Siege
1975
Wolf Guy
6/34
Akira Inugami is the only survivor of a clan of ancient werewolves who relies on his supernatural powers to solve mysterious crimes. After a series of...
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Wolf Guy
1974
Oh Wonderful Utamaro!
0/0
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Oh Wonderful Utamaro!
1987
Luminous Woman
5/3
A hulking man from the country pursues his beloved to the underworld of Tokyo nightclubs, where he finds work as a sideshow wrestler and becomes invol...
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Luminous Woman
1966
Daimajin
6.5/58
A giant stone statue comes to life to protect the residents of a small town against the depradations of an evil warlord.
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Daimajin
1954
Sansho the Bailiff
8.094/355
In medieval Japan, a woman and his children journey to find the family's patriarch, who was exiled years before.
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Sansho the Bailiff
1954
The Crucified Lovers
7.7/128
When the wife of a 17th century Kyoto scroll-maker is falsely accused of having an affair with his best employee, the pair flee the city and find them...
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The Crucified Lovers
1975
Song of the Devil
5/3
Bakyo is a talented but unsuccessful rakugo artist. The very successful Rokyu wants to take Bakyo under his wings, but Bakyo refuses, claiming that Ro...
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Song of the Devil
1953
Gate of Hell
7.122/82
Japan, 1159. Moritō, a brave samurai, performs a heroic act by rescuing the lovely Kesa during a violent uprising. Moritō falls in love with her, but...
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Gate of Hell
1961
Buddha
0/0
An Indian prince leaves his world of comfort and riches behind to wander and meditate for six years in search of spiritual enlightenment. Siddartha (C...
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Buddha
1949
The Invisible Man Appears
6/11
Jewel thieves become interested in an invisibility formula invented by Professor Nakazato and want to use his invention to acquire a diamond necklace...
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The Invisible Man Appears
1963
Bamboo Doll of Echizen
7.6/11
Based on a novel by Tsutomu Mizukami, this haunting melodrama focuses on a young bamboo worker who takes his father's prostitute as his wife.
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Bamboo Doll of Echizen
1963
Shinobi no Mono 3: Resurrection
7.1/8
[Period covered: 1595-1600] Third film in the famous shinobi no mono series. We last saw ninja Ishikawa Goemon (Raizo Ichikawa), as he was about to be...
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Shinobi no Mono 3: Resurrection
1970
Island of Horrors
4/5
Two women are ferried to a small prison colony on the remote and barren prison island, where they and their fellow inmates are forced to perform peril...
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Island of Horrors
1972
Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance
7.4/209
In this first film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, adapted from the manga by Kazuo Koike, we are told the story of the Lone Wolf and Cub's origin. Og...
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Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance
1965
Zatoichi's Revenge
6.5/40
Itinerant masseur and master swordsman, the blind Zatoichi, is near the village of his teacher, Hikonoichi, so he decides to visit. He learns of Hikon...
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Zatoichi's Revenge
1965
Sleepy Eyes of Death 6: Sword of Satan
6.2/6
Sixth film in the series. A little boy who just wants to be a carpenter is at the center of a plot that might topple -- or save -- a mighty Clan, and...
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Sleepy Eyes of Death 6: Sword of Satan
1968
The Funeral Racket
0/0
The film portrays a satirical view of today's heartless money-oriented society.
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The Funeral Racket
1966
Shinobi no mono 7: Mist Saizo Strikes Back
6.6/7
[Period covered: 1616] Kirigakure Saizo (Mist Saizo) returns for the final time as he sets out to assassinate Tokugawa Ieyasu in order to avenge the d...
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Shinobi no mono 7: Mist Saizo Strikes Back
1964
Shinobi No Mono 5: Return of Mist Saizo
6.692/13
[Period covered: 1616] On May 8th, 1615 the summer campaign of Osaka has reached the climax. This film takes place immediately following 'Ninja 4: Mis...
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Shinobi No Mono 5: Return of Mist Saizo
1975
Graveyard of Honor
6.7/44
A self-destructive man becomes a powerful member of the Japanese mafia but quickly loses his self control. Based on the true story of Rikio Ishikawa.
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Graveyard of Honor
1956
Hidden Story of the Yagyu Clan
7/2
It is brother against brother in this tale of love and betrayal within the famed Yagyu clan. In one of their earliest films together, superstars Ichik...
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Hidden Story of the Yagyu Clan
1963
The Third Shadow Warrior
7/10
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
1960
Satan's Sword
6.4/7
The Dai-bosatsu toge trilogy is based on Kaizan Nakazato's unfinished long series of novels (41 books, written from 1913 to 1941). Set in the last per...
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Satan's Sword
1965
Zatoichi and the Chess Expert
6.547/32
Zatoichi makes friends with a dangerous chess player, while fending off angry yakuza and bloodthirsty relatives out for revenge, and trying to save a...
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Zatoichi and the Chess Expert
1962
Destiny's Son
6.6/16
The son of an executioner and the assassin he loved yet murdered learns of his origins, leaving his foster parents to avenge his mother's death.
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Destiny's Son
1965
Young Boss: Prison Release
3.8/2
The further adventures of Takeshi Nanjo, the Young Boss.
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Young Boss: Prison Release
1981
Lowly Ronin
0/0
Reprising his role from the popular TV series "Koya no Suronin" (The Lowly Ronin), Mifune Toshiro stars in this full-length, stand-alone made for TV...
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Lowly Ronin
1972
The Trail of Blood
6.2/6
Can a sinful man change and find peace? It's unlikely in gang-plagued Japan. Jokichi of Mikogami, a drifter (and hired sword), goes straight after pro...
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The Trail of Blood
1965
Bloody Shuriken
7.3/3
Ronin samurai Ibuki-san enters a town and sells his skills to the warring families. He falls in love with the beautiful horse stable owner but like al...
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Bloody Shuriken
1967
Secret Assignment
10/1
In the fourth film of series, Secret Assignment, Raizo again plays the Jiro Shiina. This time he's out to discover who is spying for the British in th...
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Secret Assignment
1966
Assignment Cloud
0/0
A sequel to the popular "The School of Spies", this film continues the adventures of one of the graduates who is assigned to crack a powerful spy ring...
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Assignment Cloud
1958
Nichiren and the Great Mongol Invasion
0/0
During the 1200's, legendary Buddhist monk Nichiren returns from his studies to lead Japan out of moral crisis and prepare to fight Mongol invaders by...
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Nichiren and the Great Mongol Invasion
1968
The Saga of Tanegashima
5/3
Well before “Shogun” as warring clans were fighting for power throughout Japan, a Portuguese vessel ran aground off Tanegashima. Lord Tokitaka helped...
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The Saga of Tanegashima
1964
Fight, Zatoichi, Fight
6.802/48
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
1967
The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
6.5/6
The disturbing story of a physician who conducted the first operation with general anaesthetic, and the women in his life who are both so determined t...
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The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
1962
The Temple of Wild Geese
6.318/11
Satoko is a mistress by trade or fate: when her master, the silkscreen artist of the Kohoan Temple in Kyoto, dies, she is given to the temple's lasciv...
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The Temple of Wild Geese
1960
Scars of Honor
6/1
Japan, 1643, as the Kato clan of Aizu falls from power two brave samurai will settle a dispute in the time-honored tradition of their clan, by drawing...
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Scars of Honor
1968
Lone Wolf Isazo
6.8/10
Isazo is a traveling gambler and living legend in the world of yakuza, known for his swordsmanship and bravery, his impeccable manners, and his brilli...
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Lone Wolf Isazo
1966
Shinobi no mono 8: The Three Enemies
6.444/9
[Period Covered: 1570-1573] Towards the end of the Tenmon Era, Shogun Ashikaga`s powers were weakening by the day and many were there who planned to...
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Shinobi no mono 8: The Three Enemies
1962
Seven Miles to Nakayama
6.3/3
When a corrupt magistrate rapes Oshima, Masa (Raizō Ichikawa) avenges her by killing the officer, becoming thereby a fugitive, haunted and grief-stric...
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Seven Miles to Nakayama
1968
Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters
6.609/23
A greedy developer, in league with a corrupt Shrine Magistrate, brutally tries to drive people out of a tenement building and destroy the shrine in ba...
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Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters
1964
Sleepy Eyes of Death 4: Sword of Seduction
5.5/12
A fugitive christian "saint" (female, of course!) and a sadistic drug-addled princess both have their eye on Kyoshiro. The fact that a bunch of ruthle...
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Sleepy Eyes of Death 4: Sword of Seduction
1965
Sleepy Eyes of Death 5: Sword of Fire
6.2/6
Fifth film in the series. When Kyoshiro, in a moment of weakness, saves the life of a woman being attacked on the road, he quickly finds himself enta...
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Sleepy Eyes of Death 5: Sword of Fire
1956
Gonpachi
0/0
Early film directed by Kenji Misumi.
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Gonpachi
1959
Gambler and the Princess
0/0
Film directed by Kenji Misumi.
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Gambler and the Princess
1959
The Lord Pretends
0/0
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The Lord Pretends
1977
Gambling Code and Feuds
0/0
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
1960
The Blind Menace
6.5/6
This is the story of a blind masseur who tricks people, steals, and kills; he is the anti-Zatoichi
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The Blind Menace
1962
The Fencing Master
5.5/3
The Fencing Master tells the story of a man trying to survive as the only world he knows is becoming increasingly irrelevant. Danpei Ichikawa lives fo...
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The Fencing Master
1970
The Angry Sword
0/0
Story about a gambler who gets involved in a struggle between companies.
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The Angry Sword
1963
Maiko and the Assassin
0/0
19th century Japan, at the end of the Edo period. A samurai falls in love with a young woman while taking up arms to overthrow the local shogunate.
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Maiko and the Assassin
1966
The Virgin Witness
0/0
A father decides to put his delinquent daughter into a temple in Kyoto known for its austere novitiate. Initially resistant to all forms of discipline...
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The Virgin Witness
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
1970
Mission: Iron Castle
6.6/5
The Shinobi-no-Mono series was so successful that Daiei Studios dipped into the well one more time, making the best 60′s B&W ninja movie ever seen...
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Mission: Iron Castle
1969
Sworn Brothers
8.3/3
Ichikawa Raizo’s last film. He plays a Yakuza enforcer who kills a man on his boss's orders. He’s then sent to a provincial town to lie low, only to b...
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Sworn Brothers
1961
A Lustful Man
5.857/7
Fascinated with women from an early age, Yonosuke had his first sexual encounter at the age of seven. From that day on, he recklessly and forwardly pu...
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A Lustful Man
1968
Sleepy Eyes of Death 11: In the Spider's Lair
6.4/5
The titular "tarantula" is a murderous woman who, along with the brother who is in love with her, kill without warrant because they are wealthy & abov...
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Sleepy Eyes of Death 11: In the Spider's Lair
1954
Sazen Tange: The Monkey Pot
0/0
A Japanese drama featuring the one-eyed, one-armed swordsman
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Sazen Tange: The Monkey Pot
1972
Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion
7/147
After being cruelly set up and deceived by Sugimi, a detective in cohorts with the mob with whom she was whole-heartedly in love, Matsushima’s desire...
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Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion
1961
Vagabonds from Badgerville
7/1
A musical about the escapades of some tanuki passing themselves off as humans in human society.
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Vagabonds from Badgerville
1969
Blood End
6.2/5
Sentaro is been severely beaten for his defiance of the government and the high taxes during a time of famine. He is befriended by Kada Gentaro, a lea...
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Blood End
1969
Lefty Fencer
5/4
As a child, Okin the one-armed one-eyed swordswoman was disfigured by Lord Daizen-dayu, who was after her family's most treasured possession, the fame...
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Lefty Fencer
1965
Young Boss
7/1
After a yakuza boss is assassinated by a rival, his naval officer son returns home to take over the gang.
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Young Boss
1967
Zatoichi the Outlaw
6.4/32
When a local gambling house kidnaps some peasants because they failed to pay their debts, a rival gambling house pays their debts and sets them free.
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Zatoichi the Outlaw
1969
Sleepy Eyes of Death 13: The Full Moon Swordsman
5.6/5
Inspector General Kanjuro Sano conspires with the future shogun twin brother. They replace Ieyoshi Tokugawa with his twin, but it becomes a problem wh...
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Sleepy Eyes of Death 13: The Full Moon Swordsman
1957
Ishimatsu - The One-Eyed Swordsman
0/0
Ishimatsu of Mori, from his early days leading up to his joining with Shimizu Jirocho, Boss of the Tokaido where he made his mark in history through h...
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Ishimatsu - The One-Eyed Swordsman
1967
A Killer's Key
6/2
Raizô Ichikawa reprises his role as the restaurant-cook-turned-contract-killer in this sequel to Kazuo Mori's stylish 1967 thriller A Certain Killer.
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A Killer's Key
1969
Sleepy Eyes Of Death 14: Fylfot Swordplay
5.4/5
Getting an opportunity to meet with another half-Caucasian swordsman, Kyoshiro finds himself involved in a series of dangerous encounters.
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Sleepy Eyes Of Death 14: Fylfot Swordplay
1972
Kogarashi Monjiro 2: Secret of Monjiro's Birth
7/1
Monjiro, reunited with his long lost sister, is pursued by a yakuza gang because he killed their boss. He also meets a fellow gambler who idolizes Mon...
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Kogarashi Monjiro 2: Secret of Monjiro's Birth
1966
The Betrayal
6.4/14
A naively honorable samurai comes to the bitter realization that his devotion to moral samurai principles makes him an oddity among his peers, and a v...
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The Betrayal
1957
Advance Patrol
5.5/2
In 1905, Japan was seriously threatened in the Russo-Japanese War. Japan determined a decisive attack on Russia to end the war. A reconnaissance troop...
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Advance Patrol
1961
Kojiro's Turning Swallow Cut
5/3
The story of Sasaki Kojiro, a young swordsman, and his quest to train under master Seigen and develop his own style.
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Kojiro's Turning Swallow Cut
1973
Yokosuka Navy Prison
7/1
When a rebellious roughneck enlists in the Navy and goes on a rampage against his superiors, he is sent to the Yokosuka Naval Prison.
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Yokosuka Navy Prison
1968
Samaritan Zatoichi
6.6/33
Zatoichi is forced to kill a young man who owes a debt to a yakuza boss. Moments later, his sister Osode arrives with the money she earned (prostituti...
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Samaritan Zatoichi
1957
An Osaka Story
5.4/5
A poor peasant, after years of scraping, becomes a rich and powerful Osaka merchant. Mizoguchi Kenji's final project; he died before completing it and...
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An Osaka Story
1953
Ugetsu
7.971/549
In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers in a nearby village, in defiance of a local sage'...
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Ugetsu
1968
Hoodlum Priest And The Gold Mint
5.7/3
It’s cross and double-cross in these further adventures of Ryuzen, the wayward priest played by Katsu Shintaro as he tries to help a woman who may be...
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Hoodlum Priest And The Gold Mint
1963
Bad Reputation: The Notorious Harbor
0/0
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Bad Reputation: The Notorious Harbor
1968
Bad Reputation: The Notorious Men and Their Specialty
0/0
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Bad Reputation: The Notorious Men and Their Specialty
1966
Zatoichi's Vengeance
6.773/33
Zatoichi comes upon a dying man who asks him to give a bag of money to "Taichi". Zatoichi has no idea who this is but when he comes upon a small town...
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Zatoichi's Vengeance
1985
Lost Chapter of Snow: Passion
6/5
A young girl gets adopted by a family that holds her like a slave and is later freed by a young man working for the family's company. 10 years later,...
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Lost Chapter of Snow: Passion
1954
The Great White Tiger Platoon
6/2
The Great White Tiger Platoon was part of the Aizu clan's last ditch efforts to stop the advance of Imperial troops after the fall of the Tokugawa Sho...
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The Great White Tiger Platoon
1970
Naked Ambition
0/0
Wicked woman Ogin is a concubine of a powerful feudal lord Tayu. At first Ogin gains power by poisoning lawful wife of Tayu. To gain more power Ogin l...
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Naked Ambition
1990
Takeshi: Childhood Days
7.1/7
A story of childhood life during wartime Japan. Takeshi, the intelligent son of a fisherman, is the schoolyard bully. When his cousin comes to stay wi...
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Takeshi: Childhood Days
1955
Taira Clan Saga
6.94/25
Special Forces commander Captain Tadamori returns to Kyoto after successfully defeating the uprising of pirates in the western sea of Japan. But becau...
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Taira Clan Saga
1963
A Samurai Never Tells a Lie
10/1
The shogun's vassal Harima Aoyama and a chamber maid are in love with each other, but they cannot be together due to a difference of their status. Soo...
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A Samurai Never Tells a Lie
1955
The Magistrate
0/0
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The Magistrate
1955
The Dancer and Two Warriors
5/1
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The Dancer and Two Warriors
1955
The Young Lord
0/0
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The Young Lord
1956
Fighting Fire Fighter
0/0
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Fighting Fire Fighter
1956
Flowery Hood 2
0/0
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Flowery Hood 2
1957
Fighting Letter for 29 People
0/0
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Fighting Letter for 29 People
1958
Princess Tsuki
0/0
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Princess Tsuki
1958
Hanatarō Jumon
0/0
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Hanatarō Jumon
1958
The 7th Secret Agent to Edo
0/0
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The 7th Secret Agent to Edo
1959
Peony on the Skin
0/0
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Peony on the Skin
1960
Yûrei koban
0/0
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Yûrei koban
1962
The Actress and the Three Rascals
0/0
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The Actress and the Three Rascals
1964
The Gambling Samurai
0/0
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The Gambling Samurai
1961
Flowers of Chivalry
0/0
Kayama Ichinoshin (Raizo Ichikawa) has been traveling for ten years in search of revenge for his father. One day, Ichinoshin reunites with his younger...
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Flowers of Chivalry
1971
The Woman Gambler's Iron Rule
0/0
The woman gambler Ginko risks her life for her brother-in-law.
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The Woman Gambler's Iron Rule
1957
Secret of Naruto
6.393/14
From the pen of Yoshikawa Eiji comes this exciting story. The Naruto Strait separates Tokushima from the islands of Awaji and Honshu. On Tokushima the...
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Secret of Naruto
1969
Devil's Temple
6.4/7
An abandoned temple in the mountains outside of the old capital city of Kyoto is the scene of a fated meeting between a traveling priest, two women, a...
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Devil's Temple
1968
The Bride from Hades
7.4/7
On the night of the summer Obon festival, Hagiwara Shinzaburo meets a beautiful courtesan named Otsuyu. Not knowing she's a ghost, he becomes infatuat...
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The Bride from Hades
1966
The Thieves' Who's Who
7/1
In the book of the world's greatest rogues, the number one man can only be one person.
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The Thieves' Who's Who
1951
Story of a Beloved Wife
7/3
Story of a Beloved Wife is an autobiographical work based on Shindo's first marriage. Jūkichi Uno stars as a struggling screenwriter, and Nobuko Otowa...
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Story of a Beloved Wife
1965
Nezumi Kozo Jirokichi
0/0
Nezumi Kozō is the nickname of Nakamura Jirokichi, a Japanese thief and folk hero who lived in Edo during the Edo period. His exploits have been comme...
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Nezumi Kozo Jirokichi
1966
Dianas of the Campus
0/0
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Dianas of the Campus
1975
The Bullet Train
6.733/45
A Japanese bullet train is threatened with a bomb that will explode automatically if the train slows below 80 km/h, unless a ransom is paid. Police ra...
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The Bullet Train
1972
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades
7.1/132
In the third film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Ogami Itto volunteers to be tortured by Yakuza to save a prostitute and is hired by their leader to...
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Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades
1949
The Man Who Laughs Last
0/0
The East Asian Acrobatic circus enjoys popularity after welcoming the Asuka brothers, two prestigious trapeze acrobats. One day, one of the brothers g...
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The Man Who Laughs Last
1950
The Motherland Far Far Away
0/0
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The Motherland Far Far Away
1949
Goblin Courier
6/1
Jida-geki by Santaro Marune.
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Goblin Courier
1957
Night Butterflies
6.3/3
A traditional bar mistress in Kyoto clashes with her Tokyo rival.
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Night Butterflies
1958
Megitsune Buro
0/0
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Megitsune Buro
1956
Night River
6.182/11
In Kyoto a young kimono maker with traditional ideas gets involved with a married professor.
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Night River
1964
The Life of a Chivalrous Man in Suruga: Broken Swords
0/0
The second film in the "Suruga yukyoden" series, in which Shintaro Katsu plays Jirocho Shimizu. The film features Omasa, Komasa, Ocho, who will become...
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The Life of a Chivalrous Man in Suruga: Broken Swords
1949
Ghost Train
0/0
Sixteen people are to stay at a desolate country station. Since a train accident during the war, a ghost train has been coming there at midnight. And...
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Ghost Train
1962
Ken ni kakeru
0/0
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Ken ni kakeru
1960
Jirocho Fuji 2: The Chivalrous
5.7/3
The exciting story of Jirocho and his yakuza gang that controlled the area of the Tokaido during the latter days of the samurai era. Awesome fighting...
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Jirocho Fuji 2: The Chivalrous
1959
Ojo-kichiza
0/0
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Ojo-kichiza
1958
Travels of Lord Mito
0/0
Lord Mito Mitsukuni, the vice-shogun of the whole country, left the family estate and went on a trip to various provinces with his students Sukesaburo...
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Travels of Lord Mito
1950
Song of Love
0/0
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Song of Love
1951
Judge of the Ashuras
0/0
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Judge of the Ashuras
1973
The Blossom and the Sword
7/2
Tai Kato’s early 20th century set yakuza epic about an ordinary merchant girl (Hiroko Maki) who crosses paths with an assassin (Tetsuya Watari). The e...
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The Blossom and the Sword
1965
New Tengu from Mount Kurama
0/0
The film is set in Kyoto at the end of the Tokugawa period, when there is a fierce clash between the supporters of the Emperor, who are fighting for t...
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New Tengu from Mount Kurama
1963
Assassins for sale
7.5/2
Nagasaki at the end of the Edo period had the taste of a criminal paradise, where, despite the exotic, dangerous work was always in demand. Here, thre...
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Assassins for sale
1960
Bonchi
7/2
Kikuji is the scion of an Osaka merchant family whose traditional power is matrilineal. Instructed by his overbearing mother and grandmother to give t...
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Bonchi
1964
駿河遊侠傳 賭場荒し
0/0
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駿河遊侠傳 賭場荒し
1965
Rampaging Dog
0/0
Abare inu is a 1965 action-comedy film directed by Kazuo Mori. It is the fourth film in the series.
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Rampaging Dog
1967
Quick-Draw Dog
0/0
Quick Drawer Dog (早射ち犬 Hayauchi inu) is a 1967 film directed by Tetsutarō Murano. It is the eighth film in the Inu series.
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Quick-Draw Dog
1960
風来物語 あばれ飛車
0/0
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風来物語 あばれ飛車
1948
Thirty-three footprints
0/0
Fourth film of the Bannai Tarao series starring Chiezo Kataoka
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Thirty-three footprints
1953
An Heir's Place
0/0
This film stars Tanaka Kinuyo as the mother of the heir to the Hosho name, a famous lineage of Noh actors. The heir, Hosho Yagoro, is played by Hasega...
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An Heir's Place
1952
This Way, That Way
7/1
An intellectual couple in a staid and tedious marriage are surprised when the wife’s niece, who has run away from home, turns up unexpectedly to stay...
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This Way, That Way
1983
The Bored Samurai
0/0
Saotome Mondonosuke is Hatamoto (a high-class warrior who is allowed to see the Shogun in person) who has a crescent-moon-shaped scar on his forehead...
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The Bored Samurai
1957
Yataro’s Travel Hat
0/0
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Yataro’s Travel Hat
1958
The Gay Masquerade
0/0
The film won 1959 Blue Ribbon Awards for best actor Raizo Ichikawa and for best cinematography Kazuo Miyagawa. The film also won 1959 Kinema Junpo Awa...
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The Gay Masquerade
1963
New Tale of Zatoichi
6.889/63
Wishing to find peace, Zatoichi travels to his old village but only finds trouble when he ends up in a love triangle and finds old scores have followe...
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New Tale of Zatoichi
1957
Akado Suzunosuke vs. the Devil in Crescent Moon Tower
0/0
The swordsman again crosses paths with the murderous Devil Mask Gang -- who as the name suggests, all wear hideous devil masks.
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Akado Suzunosuke vs. the Devil in Crescent Moon Tower
1948
Children Hand in Hand
0/0
A small-town boy with a learning disability attempts to fit in with his classmates.
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Children Hand in Hand
1958
The Ghost-Cat Cursed Wall
7/1
When a nobleman finds a woman to be an obstacle to his growing political influence, he kills her and her cat and has their bodies immured in a wall. S...
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The Ghost-Cat Cursed Wall
1956
Asataro the Crow
0/0
Early film directed by Kenji Misumi.
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Asataro the Crow
1962
鉄砲安の生涯
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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鉄砲安の生涯
1965
新 鞍馬天狗 五條坂の決闘
5/2
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新 鞍馬天狗 五條坂の決闘
1962
The Notorious Man's Return
0/0
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The Notorious Man's Return
1969
Yokai Monsters: Along with Ghosts
6.4/10
In feudal Japan, gangsters chase a young girl who might testify against their boss. When the gangsters murder the girl's grandfather on sacred ground...
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Yokai Monsters: Along with Ghosts
1962
The tragedy of a young warrior
0/0
Shortly after the Meiji Restoration, young people devoted to the teachings of Saigo Takamori trained day and night at Seiyun Juku in Kagoshima, Kyushu...
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The tragedy of a young warrior
1961
Otemoyan
0/0
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Otemoyan
1977
Ballad of Orin
6.947/19
A blind traveling musician is abused and oppressed wherever she goes, even as the modern world imposes change around her.
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Ballad of Orin
1962
Her Hidden Past
7/0
Adaptation of a famous Kyouka Izumi novel. Set in the early 1900's, it tells the story of the impossible love between a young scholar a beautiful geis...
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Her Hidden Past
1967
Hoodlum Soldier on the Attack
0/0
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Hoodlum Soldier on the Attack
1966
Hoodlum Soldier's Flight to Freedom
0/0
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Hoodlum Soldier's Flight to Freedom
1968
Hoodlum Soldier: Looting and Pillaging
0/0
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Hoodlum Soldier: Looting and Pillaging
1971
Kumo no Yuna
0/0
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Kumo no Yuna
1962
Sōran wataridori
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Sōran wataridori
1962
Nokosa reta ko tonoko shita haha to
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Nokosa reta ko tonoko shita haha to
1961
The Casebooks of Zenigata Heiji: The Beautiful Shark
0/0
The hairpin murdered a young girl. Detective Zenigata Heiji begin to investigate. Suddenly a murder case turns into a case of smuggling.
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The Casebooks of Zenigata Heiji: The Beautiful Shark
1949
A Bullet Hole Underground
0/0
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A Bullet Hole Underground
1959
女と海賊
0/0
In the early Edo period, among the pirate ships that roamed the seas near Ryukyu and Korea, there was a ship called the Sueyoshi, led by a man known a...
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女と海賊
1980
The Woman
0/0
Erotic drama
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The Woman
1969
Gokudô Petenshi
0/0
A group of one-hit wonder scam artists led by the troubled "Kanpai," dealing with impotence, embark on a lively and poignant societal comedy. They ove...
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Gokudô Petenshi
1961
Mito Komon’s Journey to Ezo
5.2/6
Daiei Film Company's three biggest stars shine in this exciting story about Vice-Shogun Mito Komon's journey to the land of the Ainu. As the shogun's...
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Mito Komon’s Journey to Ezo
1958
Shogun's Holiday
0/0
1958 Japanese movie
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Shogun's Holiday
1969
Girl with Bamboo Leaves
0/0
Yasuda plays Omon, a woman using bamboo leaves as darts/blades to disable and kill her enemies.
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Girl with Bamboo Leaves
1962
Hell's Assassin
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Hell's Assassin
1965
Life of Matsu the Untamed
0/0
A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband dies suddenly.
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Life of Matsu the Untamed
1947
The Devil's toast
0/0
Retired police inspector Kurusu is vacationing at a seaside hotel when one night he hears a child's screaming...but there are no children staying in t...
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The Devil's toast
1954
Daikichi Konomura
0/0
A samurai is struggling to make ends meet at the end of the Edo period. He has students and, among other things, teaches them about the evils of the g...
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Daikichi Konomura
1959
Sudden Attack of the Christian Lord
6/1
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Sudden Attack of the Christian Lord
1960
Koga's Messenger
5/1
The mysterious Koga Ninja crushes the villains who are trying to take over the inheritance of the Omi castle owner using various means! A sword and wi...
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