Masaya Takahashi Movies

A young woman from the future forces a local gunman to help her stop an impending alien invasion which will wipe out the human race.

Genre: Action

Cast: Takeshi Kaneshiro

In 1958 postwar Tokyo, the residents of a humble Third Street neighbourhood struggle, dream, and grow together as rapid modernisation transforms...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Maki Horikita

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

The fifth and final chapter of the Kanto Street Peddlers series! Will the battle in Asakusa be enough for a complete victory?

Genre: Action

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

A yakuza leader must balance his violent tactics necessary for the rough streets of 1960s Tokyo with the domestic needs of his daughters.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Shin Saburi

A footballing law student tutors an undergraduate, developing into a romance that soon enough goes awry.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Kenichi Hagiwara

Two Jesuit priests encounter persecution when they travel to Japan in the 17th century to spread Christianity and search for their mentor.

Genre: Drama

Cast: David Lampson

A salaryman debates selling his grandfather's land to pay off his father's debt.

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Cast: Hidetoshi Nishijima

A major pink film set in the early Meiji era, depicting the lives of a yakuza who tries to make a fortune by starting a new religious movement, and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masaya Takahashi

Two young adults (Nana Ozaki and Hiroshi Fujioka) meet at a Snack Bar where the youth hang out and bands like The Village Singers and Purple Shadows...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nana Ozaki

16th in the 17 film Daiei "Woman Gambler" series

Genre: Crime

Cast: Kyōko Enami

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Cast: Shigeru Amachi

A noir drama depicting the downfall of a veteran detective who hates evil and falls into its depths. Ace detective Sugai pursues Chiyo, the mistress...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Minoru Ōki

A documentary about the 1972 Winter Olympic Games in Sapporo, Japan.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Masaya Takahashi

Suzuko, a woman in her twenties who has a brother with political problems (due to communist reprisals), lives for over five years in a love affair...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shima Iwashita

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiko Matsuzaka

Kogoro approaches the true face of a bloody clown who attacks beautiful women one after another! Based on the Edogawa Rampo story, "Hell's Clown."

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Shigeru Amachi

In pre-war Japan, a government censor tries to make the writer for a theater troupe alter his comedic script. As they work with and against each...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Koji Yakusho

An evil feudal lord rapes a village girl on her wedding night and proceeds to ruin her and her husband's lives. After she's eventually banished from...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Aiko Nagayama

Twelfth film of "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Ryūnosuke Kaneda

Business is a game! A theatrical version of the TV drama that became a social phenomenon starring Teruhiko Saigo. Set in a wholesaler town in Osaka,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Teruhiko Saigō

The movie is part of the Kindaichi TV movie series. Kindaichi is played by actor Goro Inagaki. The character's grandfather began with the written...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Goro Inagaki

A story of young students trained to become Kamikaze pilots in World War II.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Nursing student Asuka has just moved into an apartment complex with her parents and younger brother. On the first night in her new room, she is...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Atsuko Maeda

Based on true events surrounding a Korean student who had entered Japan unlawfully and escaped illegal alien internment.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Jirō Tamiya

In 1963, Funaki Kazuo's debut song of the same name was released and then it was adapted to a movie based on Kenji Tomishima 's novel “Shake to...

Genre: Music

Cast: Isao Kuraishi

One day in February, 2005, Metropolitan Police Department Superintendent Muroi (Toshiro Yanagiba) is arrested to take responsibility for a botched...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Toshiro Yanagiba

Kobasashi was learning Spanish so that she could go to Spain to look for her father who had left the family. She fell in love with her language...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Momoe Yamaguchi

Drama which shows the struggle of Fumiko, a female teacher, at work and at home.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kyōko Kagawa

One evening, at the Marine Tower observatory, cosmetics salesman Ichiro Iki is drawn into conversation with an unfamiliar young lady Akiko. She...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Noboru Nakaya

A life-size, inflatable sex doll suddenly comes to life one day. Without her owner knowing, she goes for a walk around town and falls in love with...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bae Doona

Japanese drama film.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Shingo Yamashiro

Masao is falsely accused and jailed for the murder of a loanshark to whom he owed a lot of money. His sister Kiriko makes the long trip to Tokyo,...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Momoe Yamaguchi

Ichibei is assigned by Shogun Tokugawa to prevent the sale of a Dutch ships-load of rifles to the hostile Shogun Satsuma. On his mission he meets a...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

Yumi Ishikawa (Mari Atsumi) is nineteen and a popular geisha. Orphaned when a child, Yumi she was raised by Shizuko, the madame of a geisha house....

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Cast: Mari Atsumi

Place your bets! Koji Himuro (Akira Kobayashi) is a makeout artist with unparalleled gambling skills. Shortly after his return to Tokyo, he is...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Akira Kobayashi

Two sisters involved in rival underworld sex trade factions compete against each other in this tale of elaborate sex antics, yakuza crime, and bloody...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masumi Tachibana

The film is dedicated to the souls of flight school graduates killed in World War II. Young boys dream about becoming pilots and apply to flight...

Genre: War

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

This anthology film consists of nine incidents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when assassins changed the course of Japanese history.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chiezo Kataoka

A beautiful hostess of a small restaurant moonlights as a well-trained assassin tasked with taking the life of a wealthy businessman...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kyōko Enami

The story of Takeha, a free-spirited genius poet who lived through Taisho Romanticism, and the women who gave themselves over to his ambitions.

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Cast: Mariko Fuji

Based on the comic by Mako Takami.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Sayuri Kokusho

Genre: War

Cast: Isao Kimura

A woman who grew up in a prestigious household, begins to have an affair outside the marriage.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yumeji Tsukioka

Set in Kyokuhoku Citizen Hospital in Hokkaido, Japan. "Kyokuhoku Rhapsody" follows the life of a young doctor for a one year period. Yoshio Imanaka...

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Cast: Eita Nagayama

Three tales of women that resided in the Shogun's harem (o-oku) during the Edo period.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshiko Sakuma

The survivors of a plane crash in a remote area are attacked by blob-like alien creatures that turn their victims into blood-thirsty vampires.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Teruo Yoshida

A story depicting the challenges faced by today's youth in working to build a better tomorrow, based on the theme of Toshiba's progress as one of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Tanaka

Natsuko is witnessed carrying on an affair with her boss, Misawa, by the unmarried Chieko. However, Chieko dies by falling and is found about ten...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Aki Mizusawa

Genre: Drama

Cast: Miwa Takada

One summer day, the chief monk of the Hojuin Temple dies. Harumichi rushes back to town hearing about his brother's death and requests for a grand...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Shoichi Ozawa

The story is of two people. One is deaf, the other deaf and mute. They marry after meeting at a school reunion, and the film follows their trials and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

Story of three people, a barber, a Christian and a graduate of the Tokyo Military Academy during the 2nd World War.

Genre: War

Cast: Tetsuro Tamba

Translucent Tree is centered around divorced Chigiri, a suburban middle-aged mother taking care of her teenage daughter, Mayu, and her ailing father...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kumiko Akiyoshi

Live-action adaptation of a madcap manga about art, opposites, love and a whole lot of cosplay.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryuhei Matsuda

Kyoko met Tetsu during her trip to San Francisco. Soon they fell in love but getting married was not in his mind. They were to meet again back in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Momoe Yamaguchi

Based on Kaoru Morimoto oft performed 1945 play, a starring vehicle for famed actress Machiko Kyo as Kei an abused orphaned girl that eventually...

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Cast: Machiko Kyō

This unique melodrama depicts the anguish of a new wife whose husband confesses to her his infertility on their wedding night. The virgin wife, who...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Akiyama is an intern, disgusted with the noise pollution caused by the bullet trains and the heart attacks that noise has been causing in older...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masaomi Kondo

1967 Nikkatsu film.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tetsuya Watari

A woman's desperate attempt to prove her husband's innocence after he has been sentenced to death for the murder of his mistress. She tracks down...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao