Movie List for "japanese 2"

Yoidore tenshi (1948) Crime Drama Romance Movie

A drunken doctor with a hot temper and a violence-prone gangster with tuberculosis form a quicksilver bond. Year 1948.

Generes: Crime, Drama, Romance
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Writer: Keinosuke Uekusa, Akira Kurosawa
Actors: Takashi Shimura, Toshirô Mifune, Reizaburô Yamamoto

Tôkyô nagaremono (1966) Action Crime Movie

After his gang disbands, a yakuza enforcer looks forward to life outside of organized crime but soon must become a drifter after his old rivals attempt to assassinate him. Year 1966.

Generes: Action, Crime
Director: Seijun Suzuki
Writer: Yasunori Kawauchi
Actors: Tetsuya Watari, Chieko Matsubara, Hideaki Nitani

Jigoku (1960) Drama Horror Movie

A group of sinners involved in interconnected tales of murder, revenge, deceit and adultery all meet at the Gates of Hell. Year 1960.

Generes: Drama, Horror
Director: Nobuo Nakagawa
Writer: Nobuo Nakagawa, Ichirô Miyagawa
Actors: Shigeru Amachi, Utako Mitsuya, Yôichi Numata

Jingi naki tatakai: Dairi sensô (1973) Action Drama Movie

Yakuza boss Shozo Hirono must choose his alliances carefully as the local gangster family affiliations prove themselves to be wildly unstable, causing gang conflicts to slowly escalate. Year 1973.

Generes: Action, Drama
Director: Kinji Fukasaku
Writer: Koichi Iiboshi, Kazuo Kasahara
Actors: Bunta Sugawara, Akira Kobayashi, Tsunehiko Watase

Tetsuo (1989) Fantasy Horror Sci-Fi Movie

A businessman accidentally kills The Metal Fetishist, who gets his revenge by slowly turning the man into a grotesque hybrid of flesh and rusty metal. Year 1989.

Generes: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Director: Shin’ya Tsukamoto
Writer: Shin’ya Tsukamoto
Actors: Tomorô Taguchi, Kei Fujiwara, Nobu Kanaoka

Nihon no higeki (1953) Drama Movie

Alternating in time, between the end of World War II and 1953, Haruko, a widow, does what she can to keep her daughter Utako and son Seiichi safe, fed, and sheltered. By 1953, it’s clear that the children, as they enter adulthood, wa Year 1953.

Generes: Drama
Director: Keisuke Kinoshita
Writer: Keisuke Kinoshita
Actors: Yûko Mochizuki, Yôko Katsuragi, Masami Taura

Kanzashi (1941) Comedy Drama Movie

At a rural spa, a soldier accidentally cuts his foot on a hairpin. Soon enough he tracks down its lovely owner and finds himself smitten. Year 1941.

Generes: Comedy, Drama
Director: Hiroshi Shimizu
Writer: Masuji Ibuse, Yoshitomo Nagase
Actors: Shin’ichi Himori, Kanji Kawahara, Hiroko Kawasaki

Taiheiyô hitoribotchi (1963) Adventure Movie

Kenichi Horie is determined to challenge his family, the law and the nature crossing the Pacific to America in a small sailboat. Despite his careful planning many unforeseen events will test his determination. Year 1963.

Generes: Adventure
Director: Kon Ichikawa
Writer: Kenichi Horie, Natto Wada
Actors: Yûjirô Ishihara, Masayuki Mori, Kinuyo Tanaka

Tengoku to jigoku (1963) Crime Drama Mystery Movie

An executive of a Yokohama shoe company becomes a victim of extortion when his chauffeur’s son is kidnapped by mistake and held for ransom. Year 1963.

Generes: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Writer: Hideo Oguni, Ryûzô Kikushima, Eijirô Hisaita
Actors: Toshirô Mifune, Yutaka Sada, Tatsuya Nakadai

Yabu no naka no kuroneko (1968) Drama Horror Movie

Two women are raped and killed by samurai soldiers. Soon they reappear as vengeful ghosts who seduce and brutally murder the passing samurai. Year 1968.

Generes: Drama, Horror
Director: Kaneto Shindô
Writer: Kaneto Shindô
Actors: Kichiemon Nakamura, Nobuko Otowa, Kei Satô

Narayama bushikô (1983) Drama Movie

In a poor 19th century rural Japanese village, everyone who reaches the age of 70 has to climb a nearby mountain to die. An old woman is getting close to the cut-off age, and we follow her last days with her family. Year 1983.

Generes: Drama
Director: Shohei Imamura
Writer: Shohei Imamura, Shichirô Fukazawa
Actors: Ken Ogata, Sumiko Sakamoto, Tonpei Hidari

Ringu (1998) Horror Mystery Movie

A reporter and her ex-husband investigate a cursed video tape that is rumored to kill the viewer seven days after watching it. Year 1998.

Generes: Horror, Mystery
Director: Hideo Nakata
Writer: Hiroshi Takahashi, Kôji Suzuki
Actors: Nanako Matsushima, Miki Nakatani, Yûko Takeuchi

Kiga kaikyô (1965) Crime Drama Mystery Movie

Three thieves escape from a heist, one of them killing the other two. He is sheltered by a prostitute and sought after by the police, but only after ten years his true motivation unravels. Year 1965.

Generes: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Director: Tomu Uchida
Writer: Naoyuki Suzuki, Tsutomu Minakami
Actors: Rentarô Mikuni, Sachiko Hidari, Kôji Mitsui

Sonatine (1993) Action Comedy Crime Movie

Several yakuza from Tokyo are sent to Okinawa to help end a gang war. The war then escalates and the Tokyo drifters decide to lay low at the beach. Year 1993.

Generes: Action, Comedy, Crime
Director: Takeshi Kitano
Writer: Takeshi Kitano
Actors: Takeshi Kitano, Aya Kokumai, Tetsu Watanabe

Kozure Ôkami: Jigoku e ikuzo! Daigorô (1974) Action Adventure Drama Movie

In the sixth and final film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, the final conflict between Ogami Itto and the Yagyu clan is carried out. Year 1974.

Generes: Action, Adventure, Drama
Director: Yoshiyuki Kuroda
Writer: Kazuo Koike, Goseki Kojima, Tsutomu Nakamura
Actors: Tomisaburô Wakayama, Akihiro Tomikawa, Junko Hitomi

Yukinojô henge (1963) Drama Movie

Yukinojo, a Kabuki actor, seeks revenge by destroying the three men who caused the deaths of his parents. Also involved are the daughter of one of Yukinojo’s targets, two master thieves, and a swordsman who himself is out to kill Yuk Year 1963.

Generes: Drama
Director: Kon Ichikawa
Writer: Otokichi Mikami, Daisuke Itô, Teinosuke Kinugasa
Actors: Kazuo Hasegawa, Fujiko Yamamoto, Ayako Wakao