Tadao Nakamaru Movies

In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a defeated army, stumble upon a mysterious man who...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

A woman and her daughter are in love with the same man, a chef at the restaurant that the mother manages. He is slightly crippled from frostbite in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yōko Tsukasa

In comic Woody Allen's film debut, he took the Japanese action film "International Secret Police: Key of Keys" and re-dubbed it, changing the plot to...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tatsuya Mihashi

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

When a narcotics deal goes sour and a suspect disappears, leaving only his clothes, Tokyo police question his wife and stake out the nightclub where...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Akihiko Hirata

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Yūzō Kayama

A pair of down-on-their-luck swordsmen arrive in a dusty, windblown town, where they become involved in a local clan dispute. One, previously a...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Seiji Miyaguchi

Three apparently unrelated suicides occur on the same day in Tokyo. One involves a young athlete, one a groom at his wedding reception, and the third...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Goro Inagaki

The sixth film of the desperado outpost series directed by Takashi Tsuboshima

Genre: War

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

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

Ryunosuke, a gifted swordsman plying his trade during the turbulent final days of Shogunate rule, has no moral code and kills without remorse....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

A yakuza gang gets driven out of Yokohama by a big gang from Tokyo. They relocate to Okinawa to violently start over.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Young orphan Saburo uses a special helmet to command the Iron Robot 17 against the forces of the renegade computer Brain. Theatrical release...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Masahiro Kamiya

Captain Gomes uses a flying battleship to battle the giant robot Daitetsujin 17. Theatrically-released abridgement of Episode 15 of the TV series.

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Masahiro Kamiya

Brain is the world's greatest computer, and also the most intelligent being on planet Earth. One day, Brain decides to abandon its terrestrial...

Genre: Family

Cast: Masahiro Kamiya

Osami, a soldier-of-fortune from Japan, joins with priest Ensai in a quest for the ashes of the great Buddha. Their journey takes them to a kingdom...

Genre: Action

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

A salaryman's drunken ravings in public attract the attention of journalists who coerce him into telling them his life's story.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

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

Japanese neo-noir crime drama movie directed by Jun Fukuda

Genre: Action

Cast: Tatsuya Mihashi

When Sergeant Okubo's brother is murdered at a Japanese outpost in Northern China during the Second World War, Okubo poses as a war correspondent and...

Genre: War

Cast: Makoto Satō

A once-powerful yakuza clan disbands as a result of a police crackdown, but one small group refuses to bow to police pressure, and launches a...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Akira Kobayashi

Men are being murdered by a killer who uses a matter-transmitting device to locate his victims.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

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...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kai Shishido

A star tennis player takes revenge on the blackmailers out to ruin his athletic career.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tomokazu Miura

Tadateru Matsudaira, the sixth son of Ieyasu Tokugawa, was exiled for not taking part in the attack on Osaka Castle. 10 years before his exile...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Matsudaira

An adventurous and daring sailor sets sail to the castle of an ailing king to stop an evil premier, hungry for power and wealth, from succeeding the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Captain Murakami takes over as skipper of the Azuma Maru, replacing the well-liked former captain. Murakami forces the crew to work harder than they...

Genre: Action

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Intelligence director Suritai asks agent Kitami to steal money from anti-government guerrillas.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tatsuya Mihashi

A lone-wolf detective known as "The Shark" must navigate hostile territory within both the criminal underworld and his own corrupt department to hunt...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Hiroyuki Sanada

Grown up son arrives home to learn his father, the newly elected mayor, has been assassinated. So he journeys down a path to find the assassin and...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Yūzō Kayama

A "hustler's hustler" (Takarada), works his way up the corporate ladder at a camera company. His biggest scheme involves winning the business of a...

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Cast: Akira Takarada

The life story of Japan’s greatest leader, Tokugawa Ieyasu, whose shogunate ruled the nation for almost 300 years has never been told like this...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinya Kitaoji

In Japan, scientifically advanced invaders from the war-destroyed planet Mysteroid cause an entire village to vanish, then send a giant robot out to...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Kenji Sahara

Two fishing scout pilots make a horrifying discovery when they encounter a second Godzilla alongside a new monster named Anguirus. Without the weapon...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Hiroshi Koizumi

When a narcotics deal goes sour and a suspect disappears, leaving only his clothes, Tokyo police question his wife and stake out the nightclub where...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Akihiko Hirata

A submarine expedition to salvage the remains of Mechagodzilla is thwarted by a massive dinosaur named Titanosaurus. An Interpol investigation leads...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Katsuhiko Sasaki

Genre: Action

Cast: Hideki Takahashi

Taut thriller about a too-perfect criminal case against an ex-convict that makes a nosy detective suspicious.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Makoto Satō

Genre: War

Cast: Yūzō Kayama

The two ronin that Sawatari Mondonosuke saved were secret envoys from Ryukyu. They could not stand the tyranny of the Satsuma clan and were trying...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kinya Kitaoji

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

In the third installment in the "Kokusai himitsu keisatsu" series, agent Jiro Kitami investigates the mysterious disappearance of a prominent...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tatsuya Mihashi

A Datsun driving, face-punching moody super-cop Cobra Cumera battles homicidal mobsters intent on causing mayhem and trouble in beautifully shot...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Jirō Tamiya

Japanese crime film.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Jirō Tamiya

Set against the background of a giant newspaper company. A girl reporter on the staff of the newspaper witnesses the accidental killing of one of the...

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Cast: Bunjaku Han

During the raging war between the Toyotomi and Tokugawa clans, the swordsman Mohei (whose family has been completely decimated) is recruited by...

Genre: History

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

A 19-year-old newspaper delivery boy begins collecting information on the households in his neighborhood and keeping a journal of why he doesn't like...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yūji Honma

In this patriotic WW II drama, the Japanese army demonstrates its courage and willingness to do anything to win as they endeavor to sneak into...

Genre: War

Cast: Makoto Satō

Soldiers on the front lines in China during World War II are besieged by guerrilla attacks and attempt to destroy an enemy fort.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Makoto Satō

Suspense drama about a married salaryman whose affair with one of his co-workers is compromised when, returning from a clandestine meeting with his...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

Toho-produced crime drama involving the drug trade.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tatsuya Mihashi

A fierce succession battle ignites at a newspaper company when the president passes away.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Ogata

Ryuta and Mineo Komatsu are brothers, both yakuza (gangsters). Mineo, although complicit in crime, even murder, wants out of the gangster life,...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

A man is involved in a fatal car accident, and though he is blameless, his company transfers him to a remote branch in a small town. Before he...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yūzō Kayama

In 1943, the Aleutian island of Kiska was fortified by a small contingent of Japanese soldiers. When word arrived of an impending attack by an...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

In 1999, the human race had reached the time of the end. Military balance is lost in the wake of the nuclear test of a certain country, the threat of...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Miyuki Komatsu

A brave, highly principled warrior resigns his post as a body guard to the head of a powerful clan after he learns that his employers have been...

Genre: Action

Cast: Yūzō Kayama

This biopic of notorious yakuza-turned-actor Noboru Ando focuses on the days leading to his arrest after the shooting of businessman Hideki Yokoi.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Noboru Andō

Third film in the series.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Hayato Tani

Yuzo Kayama plays the protagonist, a whale-hunting cannon manufactuing supervisor, whose brother is an automobile tester for Komatsu Motors which has...

Genre: Action

Cast: Yūzō Kayama

Sasaki Kojiro tells the story of the genius who staked his love, glory, and life on a duel with the supreme master of the sword, Miyamoto Musashi...

Genre: Action

Cast: Yōko Tsukasa

Kikumori runs a cabaret on the docks, while his friend Kaji operates transport boats. When a gang of drug dealers tries to force the pair to...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

An honorable yakuza syndicate deeply rooted in Kyoto fights for survival when a new breed of gangsters threaten their very existence.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Oichi may have met her match as she vies against the evil beauty that has set her sights on destroying her. She must face numerous other challenges...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Yōko Matsuyama

On a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Shimizu, a barber as well as a good father and husband, is suddenly arrested by the Prefectural Police...

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Cast: Frankie Sakai

Three men, all named Masa, join forces to capitalize on each of their unique yet questionable talents against a hyper-competitive Tokyo underworld.

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Cast: Bunta Sugawara

After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their...

Genre: History

Cast: Matsumoto Hakuō I

Four fishermen friends are caught up in a piracy plot.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Yūzō Kayama

Lord Taro must deliver a money chest but is robbed by brigands led by Jibu. One of Jibu's men, Rokuro, steals the money from Jibu, but after meeting...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

The eleventh film in the comedy series starring Japan's leading comedy group, the Crazy Cats. Susumu Sakamori and his friends travel to Mexico to...

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Cast: Hitoshi Ueki

Towards the end of World War II, five men are tasked with freeing the son of a general from Chinese captivity.

Genre: War

Cast: Yūzō Kayama

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

Ryusuke and Joe Oki escape from prison. Ryusuke was incarcerated for killing his younger brother Yasuhiko, who was a bouncer at the cabaret "Three...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Makoto Satō

Fourth entry in Toho's Wakadaishō series directed by Jun Fukuda and released on a simultaneous screening with Matango. Filmed on location in...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yūzō Kayama

Japanese police detective Saburo Fujioka is suspected of corruption, demoted, and sent to the city of Kojin. Kojin is the scene of fierce fighting...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Klima, Deputy Minister of Industry of the Republic of Alabanda, has come to Japan to purchase materials for the water dam construction. Kitami, who...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tatsuya Mihashi

Desperate to escape her grueling life caring for her paralyzed husband, Tamiko murders him and burns down their home to start anew. She is soon...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Junko Ikeuchi

Back after four years, Goro learns his younger brother's been thrown out of the gang and his girlfriend's married another man. It's payback time.

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Cast: Bunta Sugawara

A salaryman promoted against his will skips his first morning meeting and slips into a spiral of small rebellions—cafés, nightclubs, and...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Sakae Umezu

1964 Japanese movie

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Cast: Matsumoto Hakuō II

The year is 1945. After the horrific fire-bombings of the Pacific War levels Japan to the ground, the government decides to consult spiritual...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Kyusaku Shimada

Set in a juvenile detention center and depicted with a documentary touch.

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Cast: Yōsuke Natsuki

Thriller directed by Seiji Maruyama

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Cast: Seizaburō Kawazu

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tetsuro Tamba

1961 Japanese movie

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Cast: Yōsuke Natsuki

The fifth film in the Toho Diamond series, following "The Hateful Thing." Based on the true story of "Zoo Story" by author Fukuda Saburo. During the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kenichi Enomoto

A youth drama set in the Japanese alps. Two robbers, chased by the police, escape from the youths of a university mountain club who are trapped in a...

Genre: Action

Cast: Makoto Satō

Formerly a covert spy under the shogunate, ronin Azami Onijuro and his carefree companion, ronin, journeyed along the Kiso Highway. As they...

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Cast: Yoshimi Ashikawa

Two young women start their first jobs at a construction firm.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yuriko Hoshi

Yuuichi Tanuma, our young hero, is a senior at Kyonan University and captain of the marathon team. His parents run a sukiyaki restaurant back in his...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yūzō Kayama

JA woman is witness to a murder but flees the scene, leaving behind only a handkerchief with her name, Rie, embroidered upon it. Police race to find...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Yōsuke Natsuki

A 19-year-old newspaper delivery boy begins collecting information on the households in his neighborhood and keeping a journal of why he doesn't like...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yūji Honma

A wandering tough biker girl aids a female delinquent gang in their battles against an all-male Seiyu group over a fixed boxing match.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akiko Wada

1961 Japanese movie

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Cast: Yōsuke Natsuki

A private detective and a colleague investigate a man for a wealthy young lady.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yumi Shirakawa

Thriller about a narcotics investigator uncovering a dope ring.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Makoto Satō

Crime melodrama about two detectives (Ikebe and Arashima) and one detective's trumpet-playing son (Sato) who become involved in a complex murder...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

A 1964 war film directed by Kengo Furusawa

Genre: War

Cast: Tatsuya Mihashi

Modern comedy social drama about a reporter (Mihashi) for the Toto Shimpo determined to scoop his rivals during the murder investigation of the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuya Mihashi

A young man from a family photo studio becomes a newspaper photojournalist, learning the risks and demands of the job through repeated setbacks. His...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yōsuke Natsuki

Modern love story.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yōsuke Natsuki

A young detective tries to determine whether a mysterious death was the result of murder or self-defense.

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Cast: Seiji Miyaguchi

The fourth "Diary of a Successful Salaryman" feature.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiju Kobayashi