Hideo Takamatsu

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, the object of worship by half a billion people; through his abdication, his decline and dissolute lifestyle; his exploitation by the invading Japanese, and finally to his obscure existence as just another peasant worker in the People's Republic.

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A pair of gangsters break into a lead factory, steal gold bars, and terrorize the factory owner’s family for three terrifying hours.

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Based on the "2.26 Incident", an attempted coup d'état in Japan 1936, launched by radical ultra-nationalist parts of the military. Several leading politicians were killed and the center of Tokyo was briefly held by the insurgents before the coup was suppressed.

A passionate young man who risks his life for love and judo and the innocent young woman who adores him face off against an evil judoka at Chidorigafuchi.

In this downbeat, emotionally gripping drama, a lone guardian of some small huts on one of the northernmost, small islands off Japan remembers his once happier past and the events that destroyed everyone he held dear.

When dead people starts returning to the small Japanese town of Aso, government official Kawada is dispatched to uncover the “truth”.

An elderly detective and a young detective fall into a trap set by a gang of vicious robbers while escorting a suspect to the Metropolitan Police Department.

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A series of kidnappings is occurring right under the authorities’ noses as they desperately pursue the culprits. Could the typewritten ransom note reveal the culprit?

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Judo movie.

A romantic story about a young medical student and a Japanese dancer who meet while watching a university ice hockey league game, and how they overcome various difficulties to be together.

A heartbroken beauty has slipped into the ranks of the "Golden Horse" circus troupe. The circus's two star performers, vying for her affection, face off on a perilous trapeze, staking their love and friendship on the outcome.

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 rob the castle of his former clan.

Centered on a young college student who puts his youthful passion into developing true judo and the fiery mentor he admires and studies under.

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A poisoned mandarin orange goes missing from a murder scene and suspicion falls on a pair of beautiful sisters.

Judo movie.

Sanpei, an innocent sailor with incredible strength, arrives in the big city teeming with social ills carrying a mysterious bag.

Melodrama about a young woman who saves a young man from the world of evil after he has saved her from blindness.

An innocent bus girl who gave up on getting into a women’s college and is now filled with new hope and the cheerful, slightly flirtatious young man who loves her, inside the car on a stormy night...

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A young man who is ostracized by society because his older brother has a criminal record—a situation that even threatens his marriage—is on the verge of falling into a life of crime. To protect him, the older brother takes up a gun once again.

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

An ominous skull at a wedding venue; a series of chilling, mysterious incidents befalling a wealthy man whose heads of the family have gone missing on their wedding nights; and a mysterious white-haired demon driven mad by revenge!

Two men clash over the beautiful star of a motorcycle show.

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A story about a young woman who has been rehabilitated at a juvenile detention center for girls and released into society, but finds herself on the verge of falling back into a life of crime.

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In one of Japan's most frequently-told ghost stories, a murdered wife returns in an act of vengeance.

A passionate, righteous journalist, burning with indignation, draws his gun of justice in response to the death of his fellow photographer.

A young judo athlete ends up working as a cabaret bouncer.

Tied to a mountain between her brutalizing spouse and her secret lover, disaster strikes; the authorities accuse her of murder and prompt a confession.

After the fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate, there was a series of battles fought while the former supporters of the Tokugawa shogunate retreated to the north where they actually started a sovereign nation that was recognized by more than one European country. Survivors of the Shinsengumi were among the followers of Enomoto Takeaki who took them to the northernmost island of Ezo where they fought their final battle at the star shaped fort, Goryokaku. The Japanese Civil Wars fought in the name of the emperor signaled the complete end of the feudal system and Japan’s entry into the modern world as those brave samurai tried to halt progress and learned that the age of modern warfare and weaponry had passed them by. Swords were no match for rifles and cannons, nor was any man a match for the power of the imperial flag. Japanese loyalty to the emperor has long defined the nation and culture despite the changing times.

Third movie of the series starring Hakuryu.

A gangster named Sagara killed a broker at the request of a friend named Oba, was arrested and spent eight years in prison. Now released, he wants to find out who squealed on him.

The story follows Oshino, a geisha who is trying to start a new life with a lover who is a painter. However, her past filled with debts and pimps catches up to her.

A traditional bar mistress in Kyoto clashes with her Tokyo rival.

Nishi is an advertising executive for a caramel company that is planning to launch a new product, in fierce competition with two other companies.

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.

A bunch of young, angry and penniless misfits are full of great vitality. They aren’t quite up to joining the yakuza and execute a variety of petty scams. After being approached by a yakuza and asked to become a spy for them, they are now planning to take 10 million yen from the yakuza.

A greedy, materialistic family attempts to cover-up the embezzlement committed by the son while keeping their other schemes active. They discover there are other, equally conniving players involved.

On the night of the Sanja Festival, a bloodstained wallet left in the hands of a female pickpocket… The boss’s sinister grasp closing in on an innocent dancer, and the passion and deadly battle unleashed by the righteous hero of Asakusa…

The film depicts carnivalesque atmosphere summed up by the cry "Ei ja nai ka" ("Why not?") in Japan in 1867 and 1868 in the days leading to the Meiji Restoration. It examines the effects of the political and social upheaval of the time, and culminates in a revelrous march on the Tokyo Imperial Palace, which turns into a massacre. Characteristically, Imamura focuses not on the leaders of the country, but on characters in the lower classes and on the fringes of society.

Two car manufacturers spy on each other to try to find out details and prices of a new sports car each is about to launch.

A studio introduction version for Daiei Stars.

In 1940, Kubota Shoten, which has been in business for generations, goes bankrupt due to the debauched lifestyle of its president, Kunimitsu Kubota. Subsequently, Kunimitsu moves back to his hometown and his children are sent to live with other relatives.

Detective Muramatsu's wife, Fusae, is killed by a drug addict. After the criminal climbs to the roof of the house with a hostage, Muramatsu shoots him dead in order to rescue the hostage, but the public denounces his actions as stemming from the personal grudge of a detective whose wife was just murdered, and he is demoted.

Rennyo was the key figure responsible for the restoration of Shin Buddhism in Japan, in particular the Honganji lineage that had a slump in its fortunes during the Middle Ages. According to the legend, his motivation was a pivotal childhood incident at the age of six when his mother summoned him and told him about his destiny to revive the fortunes of the Honganji school to which he was the next in line. She then mysteriously disappeared from the temple. Taking her words to heart, from a background of great poverty and hardship, at the age of 16 he set out to spread the word across the land.

The anti-gangster law has been very bad for business, but one yakuza boss is running his syndicate like a ruthless conglomerate -- and thriving.

A small group of men stigmatized for killing the gang leader tries to survive the group and take revenge on the man who killed them, while being involved in the conflict between the two major powers of Kanto and Kansai. The second movie of the live action adaptation series.

The twelfth 'Road to the Don' film.

Hidemi is bored of school, and decides to find another way to succeed in life.

When Shinsuke returns to Kyushu from the Russo-Japanese War he finds his Judo school hall neglected and in decay. His Judo teacher has died and his brother, Ryota, and the teacher's only daughter, Akiko, are greatly disturbed by Zanba, who intends to use the school for teaching the Ryukyu art of Karate.

Based on the short story of the same name by Seichō Matsumoto.

Adaptation of the classic masterpiece about the relationship between parents and their children.

Hayase, a schoolteacher, assists Sakai in editing a German-Japanese dictionary. Hayase owes much to Sakai, as Sakai raised him for 13 years after Hayase lost his parents in a war. Hayase has been secretly married to Otsuta, a former geisha, and has been unable to tell Sakai of the marriage, aware as he is that Sakai wants him to marry his daughter, Taeko. Otsuta wants Hayase to tell Sakai about her, but understands the difficulty of his position. At a festival, Otsuta is mistaken for a pickpocket and taken to the police. Because of her background as a geisha, newspaper reporters eagerly delve into her past and report that she has been married to Hayase. Unaware of what has been printed in the papers, Hayase decides to tell Sakai about his marriage. Sakai shows the newspaper to him and orders Hayase to part with Otsuta. Given no chance to explain, Hayase accepts Sakai's order.

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Omnibus picture, consisting of three stories.

After a businessman is murdered, an investigation identifies a suspect who is then put on trial for that crime.

Remake of The Story of a Man Among Men (1984)

Contemporary musical drama film by Yasuzo Masumura.

A youth drama set in a Japanese university which is home to a group of active, leftist students.

Because of trickery, the Jinya Group has only seven days to complete a mountain road project or it will forfeit a major dam construction job to the scheming Ojika Group.

Ryokichi Ibuki is a clerk who learns company "top secrets" and becomes an industrial blackmailer. Kaoru Koizumi, a confidential secretary in love with Ibuki, reveals her firm's plans to him. She resigns when Ibuki blackmails her employer but Ibuki gains another spy in Ayuko Ichinoi...

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Adaptation of the novel by Masao Kume.

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A journalist decides to do his own investigation after a series of strange murders are committed during a local election campaign.

A young scriptwriter with a yakuza upbringing, an iron-fire dancer, a young painter, and a pure-hearted downtown girl fall in love in Asakusa in this entertaining tale of love and action.

A Girl isn't Allowed to Love is a 1955 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.

In 1905, Japan was seriously threatened in the Russo-Japanese War. Japan determined a decisive attack on Russia to end the war. A reconnaissance troop was organized to penetrate into the supreme headquarter of Russia in Tieling Mountain of China to find out the enemy's situation...

The intense selfishness of a man brings him fame and fortune but not happiness.

Depicts four cheerful, young former college students with promising futures who die tragic deaths as pilots in the Kamikaze Special Attack Corps.

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The biopic of Shigenobu Ōkuma, one of the main Japanese leaders at the turn of the 20th century, a supporter of rapprochement with the United Kingdom, and who brought his country into the Triple Entente against the German Empire.

Set around Ginza’s neon billboard boom, the movie is a drama of romance, corporate intrigue and tragic crime. A reporter (Ken Utsui) investigates a homicide in Tokyo’s bustling construction scene, meanwhile a super typhoon is brewing in the Pacific, and Ginza is square in its sights!

Based on the original work of Akutagawa Prize-winning writer Ashihei Hino, the film depicts the love of the proud geisha Nobukichi Hakata in the early Taisho era.

A large, dinosaur-like monster has risen from Tokyo Bay and attacked the city. As the government collapses into chaos, the people of a rural town in Fukui Prefecture, from whose perspective we see the entire movie, watch as the events unfold on TV. Some decide to run for their lives, some take it as a sign of the apocalypse, some go completely crazy, but most of the townspeople wait and watch, and wonder where the monster will head next.

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Kojima Takeshi, who has strayed from the yakuza world, launches a gang that draws a line in the sand with today's yakuza society. However, the Sekiyama and Jinno gangs, who find this an eyesore, attempt to crush Takeshi and his gang. The Sekiyama and Jinno gangs send in an assassin, Kishigami, a former brother of Takeshi...

The case of the counterfeit bills that spread all over Japan.

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An exciting film about thugs, in which murders and drugs, justice and resentment explode in the dark city of Tokyo with the help of guns and violence.

The truth of a sniper becomes clear in the turmoil of a drug robbery that shakes the underworld.

Ide of the Kokusai Rayon Company visits a supermarket and finds cheap shirts being passed off as his company's products. But a closer look reveals that the last letter of "Kokusai" has been changed to "n" and reads "Kokusan." The buyers, however, are all under the impression that they are buying Kokusai shirts. Ide begins an investigation to find out where the shirts are being made, but before he is able to uncover anything, he is killed on a train and his little black book, filled with secret data, is stolen. Sugino then starts a one-man search for both the killer and the factory turning out the cheap shirts.

The right-hand man of a narcotics ring (Tsuruta) is shot by gangsters and left for dead at a Tokyo waterfront and subsequently suffers from amnesia. Returning to his turf in Kobe, the would be assassins try once again to do him in before he recovers his memory.

This TV drama special depicts the obsession of a sister and two detectives searching for her missing brother who witnessed the crimes of a political fixer.

The picture tells of a tremendous conflict between ju-jitsu, an aggressive art practiced by vicious hoodlums led by Takamatsu, and judo, which is used only for self-defense and championed by Sugawara. All of which, comes to a mighty match between Sugawara and Takamatsu. It's loaded with dynamite, so to speak, and lasts five minutes on the screen, Sugawara, wins. Takamatsu, a poor loser, and his four ju-jitsu hoodlum companions later ambush Sugawara in the woods. This turns out to be a mortal combat. You'd like to learn the outcome, wouldn't you?

During the bloody era of the Tokugawa Shogunate collapse, a man appeared capable of overthrowing a corrupt government and ending the feud between the Choshu and Satsuma clans. This is the story of Tsukigat Khanpayit, the sword maker of the Choshu clan, who, along with Katsuro Kogoro and Sakamoto Ryoma, sought to fulfill the dream of a new peaceful era in Japan. Can he realize his ideals or will he die in the chaos of internecine fights...

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1962 Japanese movie

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The story of Sasaki Kojiro, a young swordsman, and his quest to train under master Seigen and develop his own style.

Ryoji Minami, an elite trading company man, falls in love with Minako Kano, the daughter of the fifth president of the Kanto Kano family, overcomes obstacles, and has a wedding. A sudden misfortune befell Ryoji. On the day of the wedding, his father and daughter were killed by a bomb planted in a package. In anger and sadness with nowhere to go, Ryoji vows to take revenge on the bomber, and as the sixth head of the Kano family, confronts the Kyoei Alliance.

A businessman who dreams of a successful career ends up embroiled in a murder case after a love affair.

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Yukiko Shiba, a doctor, and Akira Sakai, a composer and musician, are lovers. Their love is a forbidden one. He is married, with children. She is a doctor with a bright career ahead of her.

A master swordsman is ordered to go undercover on a mission to find and destroy a cannon factory being used by two samurai clans that try to usurp power and gain the position of shogun for one of their own.

Naoya Ichijo uses special judo techniques to succeed.

The fourth 'Road to the Don' film.

The second full-fledged mahjong drama presented with the full cooperation of the Japan Professional Mahjong Federation! The strongest rival appears. The most formidable rival appears. What will Ando Mitsuru do? Will the subspace killing method be defeated?

An industry research director, Isomura, is killed in a suspected hit-and-run, but his employee, Hinuma, believes it was murder, not an accident.

1962 Japanese movie

One day, the leader of the Aoi Gang is assassinated by a mysterious hitman. Consumed by rage, his wife Ryuko resolves to carry on her late husband's will and rises to seek revenge..

1962 Japanese movie

The eighth "Road to the Don' film.

The first 'Road to the Don' film.

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The ninth 'Road to the Don' film.

The boss of the Miyakonojo family is attacked as it is suspected that there's a traitor among them, starting a crisis inside the family.

A man who is fed up with his office job finds himself targeted by a hitman after he unexpectedly agrees to act as stand-in CEO for a major corporation. However, for some reason, the hitmen start getting killed off one by one.

Based on the comic book by Tetsu Kusamoto.

Reiko Minagawa leaves her home in Okayama to avoid an arranged marriage she doesn't want. Upon arriving in Tokyo, she calls Akira Isomura, a college student for whom she has feelings. Isomura is pleasantly surprised by her call, and promises to meet her at the train station entrance in about ten minutes. However, unaware that there are two entrances, the two of them spend hours waiting at different gates and are ultimately unable to meet.

The third 'Road to the Don' film.

Police investigate the murder of a private eye/blackmailer who had numerous enemies, including six prime suspects.

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The sixth 'Road to the Don' film.

The eleventh 'Road to the Don' film.

The seventh 'Road to the Don' film.

The second 'Road to the Don' film

An adaptation of the popular gambling comedy serialized in 'Weekly Manga Sunday.'

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