Takamaru Sasaki Movies

A young gambler returns from prison to find his gang scattered, and many gone over to his old rival. But their rivalry is not only a matter of...

A moving episode in which a war criminal in the Philippines, having faced death, pleads earnestly while trembling with fear.

Part of the Queen Bee series.

Satake Shoji had been a trapeze artist in the Ezaki Circus, but when Shingo, his team mate, slipped and fell to his death, he had felt responsible...

In the early years of the twentieth-century a young gambler returns to his home town where he finds the gang of which he was once a member engaged in...

In this fifth episode of the "Wataridori" series, Taki Shinji (Kobayashi Akira) drifts north to Hokkaido, where he helps protect an Ainu village from...

In the nine part Wataridori series (1959-1962), Kobayashi played a wanderer on Japan’s back roads with most of the accoutrements of a Western...

Sakata Sankichi, an amateur shogi player living in the slums of Osaka, is so obsessed with the board game that he spends all of his family's money to...

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

The Stormy Era of Twenty Years

1959 Shintoho adaptation of Kyoka Izumi's novel "A Woman's Pedigree".

Japanese life during the past thirty-five turbulent years is depicted in this film through the eyes of two police detectives. One is Henmi, who comes...

A father and son are both heavy drinkers. However, the son dies in an accident at a bar, leaving behind a fiance…. A unique social satire that...

Fifth Moonlight Mask theatrical film.

Action melodrama.

Koharu, a young geisha, is in love with Kenichi, an apprentice carpenter to her father Masagoro. Their love life comes to a sudden halt after an...

A grieving factory worker storms a Tokyo police station, holding a department chief at gunpoint, convinced he killed his girlfriend. When he learns...

1962 Japanese movie