Reiko Ōhara

Continuation of the film Once and For All about two yakuza brothers Joji and Goro.

In post-war Japan, it is difficult for private business to stay afloat. The small atelier has a debt of several million yen. To get a loan, his...

A man who hunts for women and sells them to bars and cabarets. This film depicts the lives of men and women who breathe the dark side of the city and...

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...

The blind masseuse is targeted by the leader of a powerful yakuza group while also fending off a jealous husband bent on revenge. Zatoichi tours...

A young man who aspires to become a big-shot businessman, finds himself in a twist of fate. Despite trying his hand at various jobs, success eludes...

A lighthouse keeper and his family follow work from town to town, each time making new friends and receiving a visit from his troublesome father.

Two boys and two girls become acquainted and fall in love.

Tora-san spends several days at the home of a hard-working salaryman ("salaried worker"), who abruptly disappears. When the man's wife asks Tora-san...

A suspense comedy about thieves starring Kazuo Funaki.

A song drama based on the autobiographical song "The sun is laughing" by composer Endo Minoru. It tells the story of a young man who moves to Tokyo...

Following the death of the second Tokugawa shogun, it is revealed that he was poisoned by retainers of his son Iemitsu in hopes of gaining him the...

After a chance encounter with Hiroshi's father on a bus, Tora decides to get serious and reflect on the mortality of man. His plans are derailed...

During a packed game at Korakuen Stadium, Eagles’ star Tsubota faints, while singer Kyoko Tsukita collapses on stage at Cabaret Copacana. Goro...

A group of low-level yakuza members have run out of options and decided to start a new company called “The Do-It-All Consultants,” but this leads...

Eiji lives a quiet life running a small Izakaya with his wife. He spends his days cooking for and serving the lively residents of his small hometown.

This extraordinarily complex film is not only a send-up of every samurai film ever made, it is also an extrapolation of the value of life. The...

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...

Atsumi Kiyoshi, famous for his role in Torasan, stars as Aoki Goichi, a veteran train conductor who dedicates himself in providing quality service to...

Based on a story written by actress and author Hideko Takamine. Kimizuru Kawamoto is a popular geisha in Shitaya, Tokyo in 1926. Kimizuru is pregnant...

Japanese “kayo” film based on the song by Mina Aoe.

This is the Twelfth film in the series. There were seventeen Wolves of the City films between 1968 & 1974, in the main aimed at shock-value &...

The first in what would become Toei's most successful, longest-running bosozoku film series. It lasted from 1968 till 1972 through sixteen films.

Somewhat unique as it appears to be one of the very rare appearances of master thespian Itô in a yakuza role.

A gripping tale of friendship set against the backdrop of Hokkaido. Shinichi sets out to earn a few honest dollars with which to bail a friend out of...

A story of a shopkeeper and his ex-wife, lives full of tragedy.

A scruffy detective investigates the murders of three sisters on a small Japanese island in 1946.

Erotic Pinku film showcasing he life of Buddhist nuns during the Edo Period.

A number of recently released prisoners become involved in a racket with a rancher who is a rival to a neighboring landowner and wants to use the...

A trio of teenage tarts try to earn money through shoplifting and prostitution scams and get into deep trouble.

Jiro, a smooth-talking, womanizing bartender, flees from a Yakuza boss to Yanagase.

Set in the decadent mid-Edo period, this unconventional work depicts the story of a man who, after being pursued as one half of a double suicide,...

Inosuke, a former gangster, and his friends struggle to make a living as simple fishermen in this tale of chivalry and friendship among yakuza in the...

Bungo is released from prison to find his son Kenichi in the care of strangers. Teruko, the woman originally looking after the boy, was forced to...

This is the sixth film in the "Abashiri Series," based on an original idea by Hajime Ito, and written and directed by Teruo Ishii of "Operation Big...

Based on Ito Hajime's original story, this is the seventh installment in the "Bangaichi" series, adapted jointly by Kamba Fumio and Matsuda Hiroo,...

Kazumi - whose sensitivity does not undermine her strength when she handles her second husband's emotional conflicts with the wisdom of an adult....

Bungo becomes a single parent when his wife leaves him because of his drinking and gambling. Deciding to quit his vices, he works menial jobs,...

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...

Easily bored, but still innocent and naive countryside girl discovers partying in Tokyo is a ton of fun. Yakuza-to-be is an acquaintance who tries to...

Love-hate drama of three beautiful sisters in Ooku in Edo Castle.

Asakura was told he could leave the gang if he killed Takahata, but he failed and was sentenced to two years. When he was released, the Oyane group...

Genji, the son of the emperor, is the talk of the Kyoto nobility for his charm and good looks, yet he cannot stop himself from pursuing an...

Original drama special written by Taichi Yamada about the sadness and resilience of human beings through a man and his wife's best friend who become...

1971 Japanese movie

A couple takes in the husband's father to live with them, but it leads to constant trouble. The father-in-law meddles in their grandchild's education...

A blockbuster drama that depicts the lives of the people who colored the dawn of modern Japan, centering on a woman who rose from a courtesan to the...

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

I’m just an ordinary lad, but I’ve suddenly come down with something called ‘delayed ejaculation with genital congestion’. Before, mine was a...