Shirō Ōtsuji Movies

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Cast: Michiyo Yasuda

End of the Taisho period. In the city of Kiryu, where the wind is constantly blowing, the heads of the yakuza families of Kanhasshu (eight Kanto...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Hideki Takahashi

The second film in the "Suruga yukyoden" series, in which Shintaro Katsu plays Jirocho Shimizu. The film features Omasa, Komasa, Ocho, who will...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

The salaryman is the object of admiration in the world. Because there is no more carefree job than this, this cheerful song comedy is set to the hit...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Keizō Kawasaki

Genre: Action

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

1962 Japanese movie based on the Crazy Cats smash hit single, "Sudara Festival", sung by Hitoshi Ueki.

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Cast: Hiroshi Kawaguchi

Takeo (Kiniya Kitaoji), son of a wealthy car industry executive, is unhappy with his job and goes to Singapore to become a fisherman. At first...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Kinya Kitaoji

Heroic masked ninja Akakage (Red Shadow) and his two companions fight evil warlords in feudal Japan with their superhuman powers and high tech...

Genre: Action

Cast: Yūzaburō Sakaguchi

Genre: War

Cast: Kōjirō Hongō

A young woman begins murdering all those responsible for her ailing father's condition. Because the girl is so outwardly sweet and innocent, the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shima Iwashita

Japan, 1860. The men of the Mito clan, victims of the Ansei purge, anxiously prowl around the Sakurada Gate of Edo Castle with the intention of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Nikkatsu Roman Porno

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Cast: Shirō Ōtsuji

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Keizō Kawasaki

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Cast: Ruriko Asaoka

A young man who followed his father's wishes and became a travel actor causes a big commotion with his fellow members of the Gurentai group during...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kōjirō Hongō

Akemi is a dragon tattooed leader of the Tachibana Yakuza clan. In a duel with a rival gang Akemi slashes the eyes of an opponent and a black cat...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Meiko Kaji

Just released on parole, one young man hurtles towards a face-off with the gangsters controlling Shinjuku and its lucrative prostitutes.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

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Cast: Shintarō Katsu

Ayako Wakao won the Blue Ribbon and the Kinema Jumpo for this film.

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Cast: Ayako Wakao

Kaze is a philandering TV producer. His wife and nine of his mistresses conspire to kill him. However each woman would rather keep him alive, as long...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Fujiko Yamamoto

A suspense comedy about thieves starring Kazuo Funaki.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Funaki

Comedy drama film

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yūnosuke Itō

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Kōjirō Hongō

1961 Japanese movie

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Cast: Kōjirō Hongō

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

A comedy about Hikoichi, a mediocre train conductor who falls in love with a beautiful widow Sayuri.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

Based on the novel by Naoki Prize-nominated author Taro Takeshita, a thriller full of black humor. A jealous husband murders his adulterous wife,...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Kō Nishimura

Famous for his coin tossing when capturing criminals, an Edo detective, Heiji, launches an investigation into the mysterious murder of his friend...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Hashizo Ōkawa

A youth drama set in a Japanese university which is home to a group of active, leftist students.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Drama about the friendship between a lonely laborer (Atsumi) and a young woman (Hoshi) unable to enter college.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

Shinkichi, a peasant employed as a cloth-dyer, has a dream: in the midst of the civil war which ravages Japan, he hopes to revive the long-banned...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

The days leading up to a toddler's second birthday are seen alternately from the child's point of view as well as that of his parents.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fujiko Yamamoto

Machida (Shintaro Katsu) is in constant trouble because of his instincts to do right every time, even when it endangers his life. A gang hires him...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

The "Nighttime Youth Series" vividly depicts the lives of men and women consumed by lust and desire in the nighttime entertainment districts of a...

Genre: Action

Cast: Mako Midori

Rivalry between a hoodlum group and gangster organization.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tatsuo Umemiya

A mayoral candidate and his love child.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ichirō Arishima

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

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Cast: Tsunehiko Watase

The story of a sexy girl with a passion for attracting men and counting the money she entices from them with her body.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mari Atsumi

Hikaru Genji, the haunted romantic hero of Lady Murasaki Shikibu’s “Genji Monogatari” (Tale of Genji) comes to life in this new...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

A love melodrama.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Junko Kano

Suehiro Katsuji, a prisoner of Abashiri, is sent to Shikoku to work at a dock where a fierce turf battle takes place between a local gang and the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Takakura

The womanizing master of a run-down dojo hires an unemployed samurai to make himself look good instead of learning the skills himself. He lives to...

Genre: Action

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

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

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Cast: Kinichi Hagimoto

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kinichi Hagimoto

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

A girl continues to prostitute herself no matter how many times she is caught...

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Cast: Shirō Ōtsuji

Could I But Live

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

A coming-of-age story that depicts the crisis of love in marital life in a light-hearted way, centering on the family of a young scholar whose young...

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Cast: Jirō Tamiya

The biopic of Shigenobu Ōkuma, one of the main Japanese leaders at the turn of the 20th century, a supporter of rapprochement with the United...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ken Utsui

During their honeymoon, Koichi and Junko were attacked in a train toilet. From that day on, their sex life with Koichi did not go well, and even...

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Cast: Midori Shinki

Genre: Action

Cast: Kōjirō Hongō

Takuya Tsuda is a cop who loves motorcycles. One day a speeding motorcycle seriously injures a child and his investigations lead Takuya to Akio...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jirō Tamiya

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Frankie Sakai

1963 Japanese movie

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Cast: Midori Satsuki

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Cast: Shintarō Katsu

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Cast: Machiko Kyō

A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband dies suddenly.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

1961 Japanese movie

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Cast: Kōjirō Hongō

Detective Katahachi meets a young and beautiful pickpocket and doesn’t arrest her because she was not in the act. Instead, he listens to the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Machiko Kyō

1969 Nikkatsu yakuza movie

Genre: Crime

Cast: Hideki Takahashi

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Cast: Chikako Fujino

A straight-laced police officer is reassigned to the vice squad tasked with cracking down on underground pornography rings. While investigating a...

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Cast: Frankie Sakai