Mako Midori

Hanzo extracts a confession from a ghost using his assaulting methods, foils thieves, connects with Heisuke Takei a friend from his youth, offers...

Genre: Action

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

Utamaro was an artist who lived in Edo (which was later to become modern-day Tokyo) in the late 18th century. This film, which has a complex and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shin Kishida

Three students spend their holidays at the seaside where they are mistaken for Koreans, a minority which is looked down on in Japan. The action...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuhiko Kato

A truck driver is reunited with friends from his youth in a seedy bar and gets drawn into a web of crime.

Genre: Action

Cast: Toshio Kurosawa

A rebel youth joins a duo of entertainers only able to communicate by gesturing; when the female performer is suddenly abducted, he and Takeru must...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Renji Ishibashi

Helen and her associates stage a confession play in order to remedy stuttering, but things go amiss.

Genre: Music

Cast: Mako Midori

Mayumi Ogawa stars in the tale of a Turkey miss—basically a prostitute who services men in Turkish baths—whose plans to get rich in the...

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Cast: Mayumi Ogawa

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 &...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

A blind sculptor kidnaps an artists' model and imprisons her in his warehouse studio – a shadowland of perverse monuments to the female form....

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Eiji Funakoshi

Kazu attacks a bar in Kabukicho, a Tokyo red-light district, and flees to his hometown with abducts Machiko, a pole dancer he's been stuck on. They...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kengo Kora

In the 12th century, Buddhism was still a relatively new religion in Japan. At that time, one school (Shingon) offered extensive training in complex...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Junkyu Moriyama

Nakadai is an English teacher at a local school. He’s put-upon like the patron figure of dozens of films and televisions shows. Viewers who are...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

Set in the pleasure district of Kyoto, Tamiko (Yoshiko Mita, in her first lead role) is a young girl attending high school by day and training as a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshiko Mita

When his pistol is stolen, police detective Murakami is humiliated, especially when the gun is later implicated in a crime. Working with his...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tetsuya Watari

Gisuke Hayashida is an illegal dentist during the day and a burglar by night. One night during a burglary he witnesses a train derailment. Some...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

This is a story of love between a society girl and a yakuza boy. Mami lives an ordinary life in Tokyo, being with her friends and studying. Her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Momoe Yamaguchi

Kazuo, a Japanese army intelligence agent, reveals a foreign intelligence network in Japan and then sent to Borneo Island with a special mission.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Sonny Chiba

In the closing days of World War II, Japanese-American Hiromi, a girl age 16, encounters an American deserter, Bob, and a Japanese soldier, Iwabuchi,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lisa Oda

A young bartender acts as a pimp on the side: he pretends to have VD to get a girl an abortion. She is actually infected by another and plans her...

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Cast: Mako Midori

A young couple lives together in a small apartment and struggles to keep their relationship together, despite inertia and financial hardship. Based...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Morio Agata

Based on the comic by George Akiyama

Genre: Drama

Cast: Juro Kara

Comedy of an entertainment agent and strip-teasers.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

Helping her mother manage a nightclub, young Emiko quickly realizes how difficult life is.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yoshiko Mita

Japanese drama film.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mako Midori

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mako Midori

Movie based on a book by Kakou Senda about the use of women as sexual slaves by the Japanese Army during WW2.

Genre: War

Cast: Yutaka Nakajima

A young thug wanna-be yakuza falls in love with a country girl.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Osami Nabe

Second part of the series where sex magic skills of female and Iga ninjas clash over enourmous treasure of the Toyotomi family, discovered in...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kō Nishimura

Taro Kuroki, 42, is a stuntman with a samurai's heart. He loves adventures, plays pranks with the police, tries to cure a cat lady by reversing her...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kunie Tanaka

A survivor of the tragic mass suicides on Tokashiki Island in 1945 falls in love with a near-mute motorcycle engineer.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chōichirō Kawarasaki

A roughneck named Komakichi of Kawachi, Osaka, comes back from a three-year training course to become a chef, hoping to be with his crush Tamae, a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sonny Chiba

Film director Mario Baba meets a mysterious gentleman, and realizes he is a important man from his boyhood. The two chase each other around, causing...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Tomokazu Miura

Easily bored, but still innocent and naive countryside girl (Mako Midori) discovers partying in Tokyo is a ton of fun. Yakuza-to-be (Ichiro Araki) is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mako Midori

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Cast: Mako Midori

A young couple, composed of a cheating wife and a retired car racer, arrive at a drive-in. A man with a gun arrives at the restaurant and takes...

Genre: Action

Cast: Toshio Kurosawa

The last in the series. Sugawara runs into two mahjong cheaters (Ichiro Araki and Mako Midori + sidekick Takuzo Kawatani) whom he takes for friends...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

Ninomiya Azusa is a depressed elementary school teacher in Tokyo, who has problems both at work and in her personal life. One day, she suddenly hears...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Narimi Arimori

Psychological action drama about the activities of a corrupt lawyer.

Genre: Action

Cast: Jiro Tamiya

Japanese prison exploitation movie. Part 1 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series

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Cast: Mako Midori

Part 2 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series

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Cast: Mako Midori

In the year 1786, Shogun Ieharu Tokugawa selected beautiful Ochisa to be his concubine. It causes other concubines to become very jealous and mean....

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Cast: Tomoko Ogawa

Maruyama, a day laborer, is living on an abandoned ship at the port of Osaka when he meets an elusive man offering a job.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hitoshi Ueki

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Cast: Joji Takagi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuo Umemiya

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuo Umemiya

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuo Umemiya

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuo Umemiya

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Cast: Ken Takakura

A playboy bartender pretends to be gay in order to approach women. He is in cahoots with another opportunist, a young woman who is trying to seduce a...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tatsuo Umemiya

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mako Midori

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Cast: Mayumi Ogawa

Movie adaptation of the TV series.

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Cast: Joji Takagi

Mid 50s: the trials and tribulations of Shinsuke Ibuki, freshly arrived in Tokyo from Kyushu.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kaori Momoi

Kunihiko Date (Hiroshi Fujioka), a young criminal genius, puts a perfect crime plan into action to take revenge on the men who once drove his father...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Hiroshi Fujioka

Part 3 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series

Genre: Action

Cast: Yuki Jōno

A big American boss landed in Japan in search of funding sources. A lone wolf trying to stop it ends up fighting against his big brother's...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

The four-member con group, including the intellectual boss Nobukichi Ishiguro (Masayuki Mori), who is called an "aristocrat con man" for his elegant...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Masayuki Mori

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Kenta Kiritani

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Cast: Junzaburō Ban

Ninth film of "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Chōei Takahashi