
Jō Shishido
Beloved Japanese actor most recognizable for his intense, eccentric yakuza film roles and his artificially enlarged cheekbones. He has appeared in some 300 films but is best known in the West for his performance in the cult film Branded to Kill (1967). In Japan, he is also known by the nickname "Joe the Ace" (エースのジョー Ēsu no Jō) for his popular role in the Western Fast-Draw Guy (1961).
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 0.233 |
Birthday | 1933-12-06 |
Place of Birth | Kita, Osaka, Japan |
Also Known As | Jo Shishido, جو شیشیدو, |

1959

Zattō ni hikarume
0/0
1959 Japanese movie
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Zattō ni hikarume

1977

The Alaska Story
6/1
A Japanese sailor finds a colony of Eskimos in the Arctic and decides to stay with them. He comes off at a certain moment to look for his luck in the...
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The Alaska Story

1964

Tale on Tokai Chivalry
0/0
The film is set in Fukagawa in the early Showa period and depicts a fateful confrontation between two men who rise and fall in a black stream, trying...
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Tale on Tokai Chivalry

1990

Codename 348 Female Detective Sashiba
0/0
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Codename 348 Female Detective Sashiba

2000

Debt King Part VII: Millennium
0/0
Takao, the owner of a coffee shop and brother-in-law to Anzai, the assistant manager of Hikari Bank, Osaka central branch, is caught in a scam by an o...
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Debt King Part VII: Millennium

1969

The Cleanup
0/0
A real all-star cast turns out for this modern yakuza yarn.
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The Cleanup

1996

The Trap
6.8/9
When a hooded stranger appears in private eye 'Mike' Hama's office with the cryptic challenge "I want you to look for me," Hama is drawn into a string...
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The Trap

1990

Run the Beast
0/0
The beast that lives in a cool man is awakening now!
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Run the Beast

1993

JACK KNIFE Wolves' Bet
0/0
Kojiro Shimizu challenges the work of Kenzo Kitakata, a popular writer who depicts romance, violence and friendships between men! Hard Boiled action w...
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JACK KNIFE Wolves' Bet

1969

100 Gamblers
0/0
Set in Kyushu during the early Showa period, the son of a boss who is killed after a greedy boss takes over his territory, takes over and takes reveng...
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100 Gamblers

1966

Love Eternal
0/0
A deep mist envelops the port city of Yokohama. The scent of crime is everywhere. As an executive member of a drug trafficking syndicate, Kano is pret...
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Love Eternal

1962

Kimagure tosei
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Kimagure tosei

1960

The Angry Rambler
0/0
Fourth installment of Nikkatsu's "Drifter" series, with Kobayashi Akira.
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The Angry Rambler

1962

Nuki uchi fūraibō
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Nuki uchi fūraibō

1967

A Colt Is My Passport
6.9/49
A gang lord hires Kamimura, a hit man, to take out a rival boss who's gotten greedy.
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A Colt Is My Passport

1956

Cell No. 8
0/0
A man and a woman meet through a strange fate. This unique melodrama depicts the course of their budding love in a corner of the big city.
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Cell No. 8

1961

早射ち無頼 大平原の男
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早射ち無頼 大平原の男

1967

Branded to Kill
7.2/233
After botching his latest assignment, a third-ranked Japanese hit man becomes the target of another assassin.
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Branded to Kill

2007

Mobile Detectives: The Movie 2
5/1
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Mobile Detectives: The Movie 2

1997

To Love
5.5/2
Mitsu works in a factory and has a crush on Tsutomu, a young man she met on the Tokyo streets. One day the two go out, and after some deception, Tsuto...
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To Love

1962

The Frozen Plains
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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The Frozen Plains

1993

Bored Hatamoto: Letter of Death
0/0
Bored Hatamoto film
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Bored Hatamoto: Letter of Death

1961

Joe of Aces: Give and Take
0/0
Against the bosses of the underworld that dominate Yokohama, Kobe, and Hong Kong, ace Joe, who plays an invincible gunman, shows off his transcendent...
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Joe of Aces: Give and Take

2010

A Night in Nude: Salvation
6.5/10
A beautiful mother and her two daughters run a bar in a town. They have a dream of becoming rich, reforming the building, and living as celebrities. W...
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A Night in Nude: Salvation

1958

Rusty Knife
5.9/14
Udaka is a new, post-war city where corruption has already taken hold. A persistent district attorney wants to arrest and convict Katsumata, a laughin...
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Rusty Knife

1964

Cruel Gun Story
6.3/17
Businessmen arrange the early release from prison of Togawa, serving time for taking revenge on the truck driver whose carelessness confined Togawa's...
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Cruel Gun Story

1957

Small Rats of the Edo Town
0/0
The action of this historical drama takes place against the background of poverty and hunger in the city of Edo and depicts young people rebelling aga...
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Small Rats of the Edo Town

1991

The Killers
0/0
A brilliant hitman and a veteran former hitman join forces to take revenge on the murdered woman and challenge the criminal organization.
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The Killers

1964

Quick-Draw Joe: Sand Dune Duel
6/2
An exciting and fast-paced entertaining action in which G-Man Joe of Aces (Japanese version 007) challenges a terrible international mafia organizatio...
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Quick-Draw Joe: Sand Dune Duel

1963

Notorious Bastard
0/0
When Tornado Joe is wrongly accused of distributing counterfeit banknotes, he gets on a mission to clear his name and challenge the mastermind behind...
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Notorious Bastard

1988

Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis
6.2/18
The reincarnation of a 10th century Japanese general haunts 1920's Tokyo.
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Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis

1964

Gate of Flesh
6.6/58
In the shady black markets and bombed-out hovels of post–World War II Tokyo, a tough band of prostitutes eke out a dog-eat-dog existence, maintaining...
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Gate of Flesh

1981

Edo Porn
6.1/35
The world-famous woodblock artist Hokusai (1760-1849), a widower in need of a steady income, lives with his daughter Oei in the house of his friend Ba...
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Edo Porn

1978

Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron
6.3/17
Kumokiri Nizaemon, a former samurai warrior, has abandoned his class to become the leader of a gang of thieves. He leads his outlaws in an attempt to...
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Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron

2006

A Surgeon Named Hitman
0/0
A trainee at a university hospital named Yoshioka, was in charge of a patient but the patient dies due to a failure with a heart transplant. One day,...
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A Surgeon Named Hitman

1963

Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards!
6.3/27
Tajima is a private detective in charge of his own company, Detective Bureau 2-3. When warring criminal gangs go overboard by robbing U.S. military mu...
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Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards!

1987

Fugitive Alien
3.4/16
An alien is pursued as a traitor by his own race because he refuses to kill humans.
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Fugitive Alien

1982

I Are You, You Am Me
6.6/11
9th-graders Kazuo and Kazumi take a tumble at a temple in a small seacoast town in Japan. Through supernatural intervention, their minds and bodies ar...
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I Are You, You Am Me

2005

Detective Office 5
0/0
In a small nook of Kawasaki Private investigator 591 and adultry specialist investigator 522 embark on separate investigations that leads them both to...
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Detective Office 5

1987

Star Force: Fugitive Alien II
3.8/5
In this second film compiled from episodes of a Japanese TV serial, Captain Joe, reformed interstellar marauder Ken and the rest of the crew of the Ba...
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Star Force: Fugitive Alien II

1967

Velvet Hustler
6.3/7
A young yakuza hitman named Goro does a job and needs to hideout away from Tokyo for a while. He hangs out with loose women and hard men and always ma...
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Velvet Hustler

1971

Bad Girl Mako
6.2/4
Patronized by a gang ruling the city, Mako delinquently plays around a night club every night with her bad company. One night, a guy Hideo gets closer...
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Bad Girl Mako

1970

Greatest Boss Of Japan
0/0
A man who became the third boss faces off against delinquent foreigners and villains vying to rule the underworld in order to develop the port city.
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Greatest Boss Of Japan

1967

Massacre Gun
7.2/14
Kuroda is a mob hitman who turns on his employers after being forced to execute his lover. Joining forces with his similarly wronged brothers, hot-hea...
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Massacre Gun

1955

Ofukuro
0/0
Shizuka, Eiichiro, and Mineko, their father and son, live modestly in a certain suburb, leading a dreary but happy life. Eiichiro is troubled by Shizu...
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Ofukuro

1969

Exiled to Hell
0/0
It is the end of the Taisho era (1912-1926), and at the Hanazuki-tei theatre in Asakusa, the famous performance of storyteller Koiso Kikuji and perfor...
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Exiled to Hell

1973

None But the Brave
5.6/5
Story is about how a revolutionist, played by Cheng Pei Pei, taking on the identity of a Captain's (Ou Wei) long lost sister who is actually dead. Che...
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None But the Brave

1962

Hitori tabi
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Hitori tabi

2012

The Final Judgement
2/1
26-year-old Shogo Washio sense danger from the expansion of Asian superpower nation Ouran. Shogo Washio teams up with Kenzo Nakagishi and establishes...
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The Final Judgement

1967

The Aftermath of War
0/0
After World War II life in Japan was hard. There was lawlessness, rapine, never enough food or money. One girl, raped by three men, called out the nam...
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The Aftermath of War

1970

Profile of a Boss' Son
0/0
Four years ago, Teppei Hondo killed two people from the Shinwa group for the murder of his brother. After serving a 3-year prison sentence, he conside...
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Profile of a Boss' Son

1974

New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1
5.462/13
Bunta Sugawara is Miyoshi, a low-level assassin of the Yamamori gang who is sent to jail after a bungled hit. While in stir, family member Aoki attemp...
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New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1

1962

Moeru minamijūjisei
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Moeru minamijūjisei

1963

Youth of the Beast
6.9/80
When a mysterious stranger muscles into two rival yakuza gangs, Tokyo's underworld explodes with violence.
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Youth of the Beast

1985

I'm All Yours
2/1
A beautiful day Rokurou, a student, was to masturbate when a beautiful girl knocks on his door: You need a girl? And so begins the story. Rokurou did...
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I'm All Yours

1966

Your Life
0/0
A moodo/akushon yakuza picture with heavy emphasis on poignant seishun romance.
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Your Life

1961

I'll End in Hell
0/0
Joji Dan tries to find the heir of a prosperous Japanese millionaire who died in Mexico. However, the bandits want to take over the inheritance and Jo...
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I'll End in Hell

1974

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode
7.3/39
While Hirono is in prison, his rival Takeda turns his own crime organization into a political party, whose two executives stir up new tensions in thei...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode

1961

Quick Draw Joe
0/0
One day, a lone horseman rides into town with a wounded man strapped behind him. Joe, the Ace, had captured one of the bandits who had held up the arm...
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Quick Draw Joe

1969

Yabanjin no Nekutai
0/0
Motozo Imamura, a.k.a. Gen, grew up in an upper-class family, but he never went to school and spent his days playing around. One day, he walked into a...
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Yabanjin no Nekutai

1969

Women of the Night - Butterfly Flower
0/0
A flower is a woman or a man is a butterfly... Love and melancholy bloom wildly in the nighttime garden! This is a moody entertainment work depicting...
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Women of the Night - Butterfly Flower

1971

Go As Messy As Messy Can Be
0/0
Comedy about a young man who causes pandemonium by raiding a bar patronized by his father, winning the favors of a hostess and ends up feeling the bre...
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Go As Messy As Messy Can Be

1967

Asia-Pol
5.9/4
Yang Ming Xuan intercepts a truckload of contraband, but the criminals stage a brazen helicopter attack, ruthlessly eliminating their own operatives a...
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Asia-Pol

1962

Jūdan no arashi
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Jūdan no arashi

1967

The Return of the Filthy Seven
0/0
A 1967 crime film
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The Return of the Filthy Seven

1961

The Crimson Plains
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The action takes place in the highlands of the Chugoku region. While the owner of the Yazaki ranch is away, a gang of villains is trying to take over...
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The Crimson Plains

1977

A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness
5.6/13
A rookie golfer must cope with the stress of fame after a marketing executive transforms her into a sports celebrity.
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A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness

1991

神様のピンチヒッター
0/0
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神様のピンチヒッター

1997

Remembering the Cosmos Flower
4/2
Akiko returns to her home village in Japan after seven years in South America, where she contracted AIDS from a blood transfusion. The town, thick wit...
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Remembering the Cosmos Flower

1956

Frankie the Milkman
9/1
Roppeita is big in size, clumsy and full of energy. When his grandfather orders him to move out to Tokyo to save a sinking milk delivery business a di...
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Frankie the Milkman

1985

Caribe: Symphony of Love
0/0
Set in Mexico. The love story of an architect and a fashion designer. Both from Japan
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Caribe: Symphony of Love

1955

Sara no hana no toge
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Sara no hana no toge

1961

Crimson pistol belt
0/0
Wearing a symbol of justice and brotherhood on his waist – a crimson pistol belt, Ace Joe engages in a fight with villains trying to seize the mine.
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Crimson pistol belt

1994

The Most Terrible Time in My Life
7.1/11
Maiku Hama is a private detective working in Yokohama. Hama comes to the aid of a Taiwanese waiter named Yang and agrees to track down his missing bro...
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The Most Terrible Time in My Life

2009

The Code
6.2/6
For 60 years, the group of detectives known as "Detective Office 5" has raised the bar for detective work. The agents of Detective Office 5 are a grou...
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The Code

1995

The Stairway to the Distant Past
7/8
Broke, with his vintage Nash convertible repossessed, private eye Mike Hama is reduced to combing the mean streets of the Yokohama waterfront on a bor...
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The Stairway to the Distant Past

1966

Asiapol Secret Service
0/0
A major international action film filmed on location in Hong Kong, depicting the activities of Asian Interpol, the Asian branch of a secret police org...
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Asiapol Secret Service

2001

Drowning Fish
7/2
When corporate executives are blackmailed into public displays of nudity on the busy streets of Shinjuku, the big guns are called out to locate "Obore...
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Drowning Fish

1959

Who is in the Background?
0/0
Based on the original work of Yasunori Kawauchi of "Moonlight Mask", this is the second in the "Ginza Whirlwind Child (Mitsutogai)" series in which As...
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Who is in the Background?

1992

The Setting Sun
4.7/3
A Japanese soldier is forced to question alliances when he meets and falls in love with the leader of the rebel movement.
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The Setting Sun

1977

Black Jack: The Visitor in the Eye
5.5/4
Komori Chiaki is a budding tennis student. However, one day while training, her coach hits a ball into her eye on accident. At the hospital, the news...
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Black Jack: The Visitor in the Eye

1962

Namari o buchikome
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Namari o buchikome

1969

Chivalrous Pride
0/0
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Chivalrous Pride

1986

Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast
6.7/6
During the fervently nationalist months leading up to World War II, a rebellious teenager is transferred to a new primary school in a small Inland Sea...
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Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast

1960

Return of the Vagabond
5/3
The 3rd film of the famous "Wataridori" (The Rambler) series from Nikkatsu. The young rambler, Shinji Taki (Akira Kobayashi), with his guitar arrives...
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Return of the Vagabond

1960

The Rambler Rides Again
0/0
In this fifth episode of the "Wataridori" series, Taki Shinji (Kobayashi Akira) drifts north to Hokkaido, where he helps protect an Ainu village from...
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The Rambler Rides Again

1966

Love and Desire in the Night Mist
0/0
A film from Nikkatsu's "moodo akushon" (mood/action) subgenre.
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Love and Desire in the Night Mist

1960

The Rambler on a Pearl Farm
0/0
Set in Uwajima, Shikoku, an action film starring Akira Kobayashi who uncovers evils related to pearl farming.
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The Rambler on a Pearl Farm

1968

Retaliation
6/14
Emerging from a stint in prison, yakuza lieutenant Sumukawa discovers that his gang has disintegrated. An ambitious type, he quickly hooks up with ano...
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Retaliation

1973

Kigeki: koko kara hajimaru monogatari
0/0
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Kigeki: koko kara hajimaru monogatari

1955

Tsukiyo no kasa
0/0
Housewives from four neighboring households casually gather at an old well at Kaneko's house in a residential area on the outskirts of Tokyo. If two p...
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Tsukiyo no kasa

1958

Voice Without a Shadow
6.4/7
Asako, a former telephone operator once heard the voice of a murder suspect which has continued to haunt her. Years later her husband invites his boss...
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Voice Without a Shadow

1985

Yakyuukyou no Uta
0/0
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Yakyuukyou no Uta

1962

Glass-Hearted Johnny
0/0
Joe Shishido is an ambitious bike racetrack tout who becomes inadvertently involved in a triangle with a vulnerable prostitute (Izumi Ashikawa) and he...
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Glass-Hearted Johnny

1975

Conflagration
4/2
Global South guerrillas hijack the Japanese oil tanker Arabian Light, threatening to blow it up in Tokyo Bay, unless the Cabinet complies with an econ...
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Conflagration

1970

Charming Men
0/0
One day, when Goro (Kiyoshi Atsumi) returns to his poor tenement house from a trip on a deep-sea tuna boat, his neighbor's daughter Haruko (Mitsuko Ba...
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Charming Men

1959

The Rambling Guitarist
6.2/5
Arriving in the town of Hakodate, a wandering musician, Shinji Taki, is soon recruited by the local gang as a hired hand. However, with the arrival of...
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The Rambling Guitarist

1991

The Notorious Bored Samurai 6
0/0
Sawatari Shusui was told about 7,000 ryo of buried gold by Osuke, who claimed to be a princess of the Fujiwara family. Shusui speculates that powerfu...
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The Notorious Bored Samurai 6

1955

Policeman's Diary
6.5/4
Lending money, job hunting for civilians and babysitting. All these things are usually not listed on a policeman's job description. But for the office...
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Policeman's Diary

1965

Murder Unincorporated
6.333/3
When the mysterious “Joe of Spades” (Jo Shishido) executes one of the bosses of a powerful syndicate, his colleagues, fearing for their own lives, cal...
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Murder Unincorporated

1980

Nurse's Husband
0/0
“Quit working as a nurse!” “All right, I will!” thus began the married life of Yasuo and Keiko. But the reality is harsh. Keiko even had to work on th...
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Nurse's Husband

1956

The Happy Dancers
0/0
Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Tokyo baka odori" by Haruo Oka and Chiyoko Shimakura.
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The Happy Dancers

1956

Kingorô no omawari-san
0/0
Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Wakai omawari-san" by Shiro Sone.
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Kingorô no omawari-san

1956

Called to the Stand
0/0
Chief editor Shirou Kanzaka (Hisaya Morishige) of Sankei Publishing Inc. is being tried for embezzlement and the staging of Chiyo Umehara's suicide. T...
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Called to the Stand

1956

Kanshō fujin
0/0
Japanese drama film.
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Kanshō fujin

1962

Danger Pays
6.857/7
Joe, Okita, and Serizawa hear of the armed robbery of a truck carrying one billion eighty million yen's worth of Mint paper. Knowing that the thugs wi...
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Danger Pays

1977

High Seas Hijack
10/1
Terrorists hijack an oil tanker and threaten to blow it up unless Japan meets their demands.
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High Seas Hijack

1955

The Maid's Kid
0/0
In order to pay back Mrs. Kajiki for her good deed in the past, Hatsu moves from her village in Akita to Tokyo to start working as a maid for her fami...
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The Maid's Kid

1959

Tokyo no Kodoku
0/0
A coming-of-age story about two newcomers to the world of professional baseball who compete for Rookie of the Year honors and love.
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Tokyo no Kodoku

1977

Ore no sora
0/0
Based on the manga of the same name. Originally published in the Japanese magazine Weekly Playboy. It follows Ippei Yasuda, son of a prominent family,...
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Ore no sora

1990

Nozomi Witches
0/0
Nozomi is a former actress who moves back to Japan from New Zealand. Upon arriving, she meets her fellow high school student neighbor Ryotaro Shiba, w...
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Nozomi Witches

1970

Shameless School: Health Check in the Nude
0/0
In this outing of Harenchi Gakuen the students undergo a health check after school, but all is not what it seems. Teacher 'Beard Godzilla' has kicked...
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Shameless School: Health Check in the Nude

1971

New Shameless School
0/0
Former students of the notorious Harenchi Gakuen college open a new school for dissident youths after their former school is ruined by disputes.
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New Shameless School

1990

Neo Chinpira: Zoom Goes the Bullet
5/2
Junko (Sho Aikawa) is a low-level yakuza in the service of Yoshikawa (Toru Minegishi), despite the misgivings of his uncle (Jo Shishido). He lives off...
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Neo Chinpira: Zoom Goes the Bullet

1976

The Sea of Genkai
5/4
Two yakuza, one of whom frequently reflects on an uncomfortable past taking advantage of Korean women, meet a stowaway on Japanese soil from across th...
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The Sea of Genkai

1958

The Boy Who Came Back
7.8/6
Nobuo is a hot-headed hoodlum fresh out of reform school who struggles to make a clean break with his tearaway past.
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The Boy Who Came Back

1989

Red Crow and the Ghost Ship
7/2
A fantastic adventure of a brother and sister flying a ghost ship, guided by a red crow, in search for an old captain. The ghost ship was designed by...
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Red Crow and the Ghost Ship

1964

Tiger of the Sea
0/0
A group of pirates sail the treacherous Pacific ocean in search for wealth.
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Tiger of the Sea

1971

Okusama wa 18 sai: shinkon kyoshitsu
0/0
Laughter is brought about by a teacher-husband and student-wife couple.
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Okusama wa 18 sai: shinkon kyoshitsu

1957

Kawakami Tetsuji, No. 16
0/0
A biopic about Japanese baseball player, Tetsuharu Kawakami.
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Kawakami Tetsuji, No. 16

1966

The Dragon and the Tiger
0/0
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 gamblin...
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The Dragon and the Tiger

1960

The Rambler in the Sunset
0/0
The young rambler, Shinji Taki, with his guitar arrives a hot spa town at the foot of Mount Aizu Bandai. Of course he solves the problems in the town...
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The Rambler in the Sunset

1960

Wind of Volcano
0/0
An airplane loaded with 50 million yen for the reconstruction of Amami Oshima crashes en route from Kagoshima, Kyushu, but neither the money nor the r...
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Wind of Volcano

1960

The Guitarist from the Sea
3.5/6
Plans to build a touristic hot spring on the island of Izu Oshima run afoul of the Kobe yakuza group, which intends to use the island as a relay base...
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The Guitarist from the Sea

1960

Ryuji, the Gun Slinger
0/0
When Ryuji - the Gun Slinger, a drug addict leaves hospital to which he was taken after a gunfight by a notorious killer named Gin of Colt, he is empl...
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Ryuji, the Gun Slinger

1973

The Hard Core Criminal
7.5/2
In the 20th century, the Japanese government exploits prisoners as expendable slave laborers in a coal mine, which results in conflict between the pri...
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The Hard Core Criminal

1971

A Man's World
0/0
Tadao Konno (Yujiro Ishihara) had been staying in Canada for 5 years since his girlfriend's death. She was killed for Gang's boss, Shiraishi. Now Tada...
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A Man's World

1957

The Naked Woman and the Gun
0/0
A Tokyo newspaper reporter goes after the Japanese king of cocaine trafficking but he's tricked by a woman who works for the gangster and gets framed...
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The Naked Woman and the Gun

1971

Blood for Blood
7/1
The Akiba and Shimura crime families run the streets of “K City”. With the construction of new buildings and new factories underway, the city has spro...
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Blood for Blood

1969

The Rough One
0/0
A tale of wannabe yakuza youths. When not cooking up scams with his buddies, Zenkichi develops a crush on Taro's disgusted sister, Miki. But soon the...
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The Rough One

1972

New Hoodlum Soldier Story: Firing Line
6.9/13
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1977

Gambling Code and Feuds
0/0
It is the first Toei yakuza film directed by Akinori Matsuo, who was active in Nikkatsu action movies. It is a local yakuza movie made following Okina...
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Gambling Code and Feuds

1991

Neo Chinpira 2: Zoom Goes the Bullet
0/0
In the sequel to 1990's classic Neo Chinpira, Junko (Sho Aikawa) attempts to take out Kazama and then goes on the run. However, he quickly begins to f...
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Neo Chinpira 2: Zoom Goes the Bullet

1967

My Sweetheart
0/0
It had been a year and four months since Mitsuo was last on a movie set. Welcomed back by director Ishizaki and his film crew, Mitsuo is excited to st...
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My Sweetheart

1960

The Man with a Sinister Laugh
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After getting out of prison, a young yakuza tries to find out who killed his girlfriend, attempts not to get drawn back into crime, and to find his mi...
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The Man with a Sinister Laugh

1960

The Gun Like Lightning
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Sadao, is saved from death at the hands of Goro, a killer belonging to a rival gang by Joji just released from prison who has resolved to turn over a...
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The Gun Like Lightning

1959

The Human Cyclone
0/0
The first in the Ginza Whirlwind Child series. A poignant action giant depicting the activities of Mait Guy Akira, who calls people to Ginza Boring Ma...
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The Human Cyclone

1971

Monk's Paradise
0/0
A genius gambler and born hunter is a Buddhist monk by occupation.
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Monk's Paradise

2007

Kisaragi
6.906/32
The fanclub of a deceased Japanese idol gather together for the one year anniversary of her death. By combining forces they try to unearth the true ci...
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Kisaragi

1983

Our Wedding
7/1
On her wedding day, Makiko is stabbed by a woman in wedding dress. The wound isn't serious but the attacker blows herself up and can't be identified....
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Our Wedding

1961

The Rambler under the Southern Cross
0/0
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 hero, fr...
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The Rambler under the Southern Cross

1966

Cat Girls Gamblers: Abandoned Fangs of Triumph
6.2/6
Yukiko is on her way to meet Boss Gunji. Judging by her appearance, no one would suspect that this beautiful young woman, sitting quietly in a suburba...
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1989

You'll Fall For Me
0/0
Meet Chika. She thinks she's been jinxed: she's going to be dumped on Christmas Eve. Enter Tomako, who likes reading and making pudding. Although they...
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You'll Fall For Me

1965

The Dragon of Macao
8/3
Ryu (Akira Kobayashi) sets foot on the Yokohama port with a suitcase filled with 300 thousand dollars. He was sent by a jewelry company in Hong Kong t...
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The Dragon of Macao

1966

Blood Shed
0/0
Ginjiro was born to a family of nobility, though he yearned for freedom. To earn this freedom, he affiliates himself with the worst of the worst. Swe...
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Blood Shed

1994

Turning Point
6/1
A middle-aged journalist looking to make her big break. After working the same beat on the "women's page", Yumiko gets promoted to editorials.
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Turning Point

1980

The First Catch
3.5/2
Based on the comic book series of the same name by Yûsuke Aoyagi.
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The First Catch

1981

Blue Jeans Memory
0/0
A trio of high school boys get summer jobs at a seaside resort. Soon, however, they learn that the woman who runs it is in financial trouble. The thre...
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Blue Jeans Memory

1970

Shameless School
0/1
Comedy of high school where students and teachers run wild, based on a popular comic strip.
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Shameless School

1970

Shameless School: Tackle Kiss
0/0
Students against teachers in the wildest kiss-stealing, petting-orgy ever.
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Shameless School: Tackle Kiss

1986

Leave My Girl Alone
6/1
Hitomi, a former orphan who is trying to leave behind her delinquent ways, one day agrees to tutor a wealthy young boy who has just become an orphan h...
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Leave My Girl Alone

1967

Burning Clouds
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Burning Clouds

1986

Take It Easy
0/0
Coming of age film about rock musicians.
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Take It Easy

1984

Sukanpin Walk
5/1
Musical star vehicle for a young Kikkawa Koji.
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Sukanpin Walk

2005

Flower & Snake II
6.5/31
The beautiful Shizuko and her husband Toyama Takayoshi have a loving relationship, But Takayoshi is getting older and isn't always able to perform. Hi...
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Flower & Snake II

1956

Shiawase wa doko ni
0/0
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1991

Danger Point: The Road to Hell
6/1
Killers Ken and Joji undertake the killing of a man named Sakai. He utters some interesting last words before being shot dead, leading Ken and Joji on...
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Danger Point: The Road to Hell

1957

The Champion
6/4
Eikichi Yamashiro, who is a former contender for the boxing title, works as a manager at a Club Champion owned by his fiancé Natsuko’s father. He lost...
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The Champion

1972

New Abashiri Prison Story: Honor and Humanity, Ammunition That Attracts the Storm
0/0
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1970

New Prison Walls of Abashiri: High Stakes at Abashiri
0/0
Prisoner Katsuji must fend for himself and his prison mates in the fierce battle involving a family feud.
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New Prison Walls of Abashiri: High Stakes at Abashiri

1964

Jinsei Gekijo
0/0
1964 Nikkatsu Theater of Life adaptation.
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Jinsei Gekijo

1956

Confession
0/0
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Confession

1970

A Hoodlum At The Risk Of His Life
0/0
A reporter is framed for murder while investigating organized crime. Upon being released from prison the plan for his revenge unravels.
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A Hoodlum At The Risk Of His Life

1957

Temptation
8/4
Shokichi, the owner of the clothing store, lives with his daughter Hideko and plans to open an art gallery. One day, Hideko led a handsome art student...
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Temptation

1992

8 Man - For All Lonely Nights
3.7/7
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 exper...
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8 Man - For All Lonely Nights

1960

The Guitarist and the Rancher
0/0
Rambler Shinji arrives in town armed with nothing but a guitar. With assistance from an old gun-for-hire friend, he sets about to stop the mob from tu...
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The Guitarist and the Rancher

1959

Wounded Beast
0/0
A tense action game that skillfully intertwines the human love between a criminal, his sister and his lover, and the desperate pursuit of a detective...
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Wounded Beast

1959

Gun Number Zero
0/0
Eric, an American, arrives at an international tourist hotel and loses his self-defense Colt. It was Kudaira, a beggar, who discovered it, and immedia...
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Gun Number Zero

1959

Mighty Rules
0/0
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Mighty Rules

1984

Again
0/0
An anthology that embodies the essence of Toei action films with a stylish flair, this movie follows an aging hitman (Jō Shishido) on a quest to find...
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Again

1958

Orera wa nagashi no ninkisha
0/0
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Orera wa nagashi no ninkisha

1958

Taiyō o buchi otose
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Taiyō o buchi otose

1961

Joe of Aces: Gambling for a Living
0/0
A marine security officer stranded on the ocean in a small boat is rescued by a crew of buccaneers.
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Joe of Aces: Gambling for a Living

1956

Seishun wo warera ni
10/1
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Seishun wo warera ni

1992

The Gambler
0/0
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2002

Gokudô seisen: Jihaado
0/0
The first in the "Gokudo Seisen" series, a hard-line action OV that presents the original draft of Shigenori Takechi under the supervision of Takashi...
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Gokudô seisen: Jihaado

1962

Mekishiko mushuku
0/0
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Mekishiko mushuku

1961

Nosappu no jū
0/0
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Nosappu no jū

1963

Detective Bureau 2-3: A Man Weak to Money and Women
0/0
A sequel to Detective Bureau 2-3: Go To Hell Bastards!
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Detective Bureau 2-3: A Man Weak to Money and Women

1959

Machi ga nemuru toki
0/0
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2011

Mobile Detectives: The Movie 3
5/1
Kai, Mei, and Yui are high school students. The three girls are also detectives and they solve cases using their reasoning abilities. It's also a secr...
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Mobile Detectives: The Movie 3

1958

Breasts and Bullets
0/0
Japanese crime film
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Breasts and Bullets

1960

Tales of a Gunman: The Man Without Tomorrow
0/0
The fourth film in the Tales of a Gunman series. When Ryuji throws his pistol into the sea, he is attacked by a man who calls himself Sabu and says th...
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Tales of a Gunman: The Man Without Tomorrow

1995

Fukushu no Teio
0/0
Tatsuya Shijo was leading a blissful life with her wife and daughter. But all hell came down when a madman murdered his wife and daughter and bizarrel...
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Fukushu no Teio

1957

Muhō Ichidai
0/0
The movie is about a man who started a brothel to make money out of his poor circumstances in the late Meiji period.
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Muhō Ichidai

1961

Gambler in the Sea
0/0
Joe, a master diver, explodes his fighting spirit and friendship across raging seas and scorching deserts in this gorgeous and entertaining epic.
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Gambler in the Sea

1959

Merciless Bullet
0/0
Killer Kenji Sasagawa (Odaka) enters the room of a luxurious apartment in the silence of the night and, finding himself in front of the boss of the Sa...
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Merciless Bullet

1961

Taiheiyō no katsugiya
0/0
Tetsuji Tachibana was fired as a pilot after Jim gave false testimony in an accident caused by Captain Jim's intoxication. Only Junpei Nambu, the edit...
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Taiheiyō no katsugiya

1960

The Cards Will Tell
0/0
A 1960 crime film
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1994

Mahjong Demon 3: Extraterritorial Mahjong
0/0
Shoichi Sakurai, who started his own trading company and is obsessed with business, is approached with a mineral resource deal. However, it is a trap...
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Mahjong Demon 3: Extraterritorial Mahjong

1982

Fossilized Wilderness
0/0
Detective Nishina Sosuke, the director of the Metropolitan Police Department's Investigation Division 1, is suddenly attacked by a trio of men at his...
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Fossilized Wilderness

1965

Inochi Shirazu no Rokudenashi
0/0
Bastard tablets that hunt down the crooks behind the gambling world of horse racing, bicycle racing, and car racing.
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Inochi Shirazu no Rokudenashi

1988

Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis
6.2/18
The reincarnation of a 10th century Japanese general haunts 1920's Tokyo.
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Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis

1988

This Heartbeat
0/0
The love and friendships of high school students
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This Heartbeat

1968

魔性の女
0/0
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