Yoshio Harada

Works commemorating the 70th anniversary of the founding of Japan mapping Supervision Association

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinji Fukasaku

In a poor district of Edo lives a young samurai named Soza. He has been sent by his clan to avenge the death of his father. He isn't an accomplished...

Genre: Action

Cast: Junichi Okada

Seven characters, introduced at the start of the film, get thrown together into the same hotel room: a thief who's stolen a suitcase of money from...

Genre: Action

Cast: Masatoshi Nagase

A family gathers together for a commemorative ritual whose nature only gradually becomes clear.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroshi Abe

A police detective tries to investigate the mystery of a victim who was shot in the head, but no bullet was found.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Makoto Fujita

Paul Racine, a high-powered American business executive in Japan, is catapulted into a maze of danger and intrigue after he and his sexy companion...

Genre: Action

Cast: Christopher Lambert

Fu and Suzu are two pretty anarchist girls who decide to take to the road. They set off on a journey to visit the tomb of a small pig by name Pupu....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sakura Uehara

Yojin, an eccentric young farmer living in the countryside, falls in love for the first time in his life. Her name is Machiko, she teaches in a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kenichi Matsuyama

Can a sinful man change and find peace? It's unlikely in gang-plagued Japan. Jokichi of Mikogami, a drifter (and hired sword), goes straight after...

Genre: Action

Cast: Yoshio Harada

When a number of suicide victims slash themselves in their sleep, detective Keiko Kirishima is called to investigate.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Ryuhei Matsuda

A pair of hard-boiled Tokyo cops are investigating a gruesome murder: after killing the victim, the murderer cut his skull open and cooked his brain...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Yosuke Eguchi

Aida, a daredevil detective who isn't afraid of power or challenges. The great evil has begun investigating a major corruption case involving a...

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Cast: Seiji Matano

Yataro Tanigawa, a one-eyed hired assassin, impresses yakuza boss Gomyo Kiyoemon with his skill. Gomyo hires Tanigawa as his bodyguard, or yojimbo,...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

Hyakkimaru, a warrior on a quest to reclaim 48 of his body parts which were each taken by a demon, is joined by Dororo, a thief on a quest to avenge...

Genre: Action

Cast: Satoshi Tsumabuki

After discovering a hole in their crowded cell, nine prisoners escape their confinement to track down the key of the universe, which a fellow...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Yoshio Harada

An omnibus featuring the work of three different filmmakers.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Takanori Jinnai

Lady Snowblood is caught by the police and sentenced to death for her crimes. As she is sent to the gallows she is rescued by the secret police who...

Genre: Action

Cast: Meiko Kaji

A tough prosecutor is falsely accused of theft and goes on the run to clear his name. He is assisted by the beautiful daughter of a rich man.

Genre: Action

Cast: Ken Takakura

A humorous wedding story fueled by a rather no-good father and son, disguised as the old and new “good guys.” The father Nobuo, and his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joe Odagiri

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshinori Omi

Thirsting for revenge, Jokichi rashly attempts to assassinate the evil Chogoro but ends up being captured by Yakuza. His life is spared by Boss...

Genre: Action

Cast: Yoshio Harada

Stuck doing show-biz schlock, an investigative reporter stumbles on a scheme to swindle pensions through an attractive gold futures scam, a potential...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yuya Uchida

Twelve-year-old Koichi, who has been separated from his brother Ryunosuke due to his parents' divorce, hears a rumor that the new bullet trains will...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koki Maeda

A director faces creative block while working on his latest film – a reimagination of his adolescence growing up in a mountain village in rural...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Kantarō Suga

Several high-school friends spend their final summer together indulging in sex and leisure; their halcyon days are soon coming to an end.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masasuke Hirose

Story of the last three days in the life of Sakamoto Ryoma (1836-1867), the imperial loyalist who tried to unite the Choshu and Satsuma clans and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshio Harada

Following the bloody aftermath of a heist, three robbers are double-crossed by a new accomplice, who is then tracked down amid escalating carnage and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kenichi Hagiwara

Kenta, a young pianist who has just lost his job, is drowning his woes at a bar, when he meets a man in a Hawaiian shirt named Yamaki. He invites...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yuko Takeuchi

Following the life of Japanese artist and poet Yumeji Takehisa through the imagining of an encounter with a beautiful widow with a dark past.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kenji Sawada

A surreal period film following a university professor and his eerie nomad friend as they go through loose romantic triangles and face death in...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Toshiya Fujita

A 1920s playwright meets a beautiful woman who may be the ghost of his patron's deceased wife.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yūsaku Matsuda

Near the end of Japanese civil war, several disgraced ronin living in Edo's red light district attempt to regain their honor by defending a brothel...

Genre: History

Cast: Yoshio Harada

Tateo, young and neurotic, wishes to leave the village his mother has raised him in.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jun Etoh

The Isokaze, an Aegis-class escort vessel, sets sail on a routine training exercise, playing host to a platoon from the Fleet Training Group. No...

Genre: Action

Cast: Hiroyuki Sanada

A magazine publisher called Out Of Focus hires a new female camerawoman. This company is located in Tokyo. The new photographer moves from outside...

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Cast: Ryudo Uzaki

At a seaside city somewhere in the Tohoku area, the corpses of Nozomi, daughter of an affluent family, and Yamazaki, son of an engineer at the local...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jun Fubuki

Two men and a woman plan to steal 1.5 Billion yen.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mieko Harada

An ardent culture-vulture youth, previously charged for the murder of a woman when he was young, plans to hold hostage a local bank.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryudo Uzaki

After spending over half his life in prison, ex-hitman Kunihiro is determined to go straight. But the shortcomings of the new gangs mean that he is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshio Harada

A rookie golfer must cope with the stress of fame after a marketing executive transforms her into a sports celebrity.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoko Shiraki

Taro is a 12-year-old into baseball and radio, especially "Music Express," a song-request show. Sound quaint? But it is 1977 and a small town in...

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Cast: Ryunosuke Kamiki

In feudal Japan, women are vulnerable, in need of protection, and capable of deception. Jokichi of Mikogami, a drifter, has not yet fully revenged...

Genre: Action

Cast: Yoshio Harada

A man returns to his seaside roots to confront a yakuza boss. Along the way, he charms young men, softens a hard woman and busts a few heads.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tatsuya Fuji

The annual kabuki show is the main attraction in a rural Japanese mountain town. However, Yoshi's life is thrown into disarray days before the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshio Harada

A bad cop is engaged in a violent chase to catch a yakuza boss. In his absence his wife runs away with another man, who turns out to be the very same...

Genre: Action

Cast: Yoshio Harada

One of a gang of karaoke loving middle aged women is murdered by a young man. Her friends track him down and kill him. His friends track them down...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Ryuhei Matsuda

Private detective Mike takes on an assignment to return a girl, who is set to marry into a prestigious family, from a mysterious commune in the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masatoshi Nagase

Professor Sarusawa and his psychic daughter Mai live together after the suicide of the Professor's wife years earlier - which was caused by a suicide...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akira Emoto

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...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

Yamaguchi, Ichikawa and Kosuge dress in white military-style uniforms to "clean" the streets of Shibuya from bad elements. After rightist gang boss,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yosuke Kubozuka

Director Jun Ichikawa spins this affectionate portrait of the people who populate Shimokitazawa, a bohemian corner of Tokyo filled with small theater...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshio Harada

Based on a play by Hisashi Inoue, it focuses on the sufferings of the survivors of Hiroshima. The film takes place during 4 days in the summer of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rie Miyazawa

Haida, once a famous private detective, is now down and out and running out of reasons to live. One day, while engaging in a group volunteer project...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Juro Kara

Two brothers, Jinta and Wataru, are raised in a travelling circus. After an accident, Jinta decides to leave the circus and travels the countryside...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroshi Mikami

Commencing well-respected Nippon director Kazuo Kuroki's sixth decade behind the camera, "A Boy's Summer in 1945" (literally "A Beautiful Summer in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tasuku Emoto

Kaido is a professional pickpocket who works the Tokyo subway with his young foster-daughter, Rei: She lets herself be groped while Kaido relieves...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshio Harada

14 year old Nakamura is sexually abused by her stepfather. She invents a friend who is coming to her rescue when she really needs it.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mami Nakamura

Edogawa Rampo is a writer whose latest work is censored by the government, deemed too disturbing and injurious to the public to be allowed to be...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masahiro Motoki

Katagiri, a highly ambitious young detective, teams up with older detective Takiguchi, who is about to retire, to investigate a murder that took...

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Cast: Eiji Okuda

Based on the short story from the best-selling collection "Poppoya" by Jiro Asada, "The Invitation from Cinema Orion" tells the story of a couple's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rie Miyazawa

A man must overcome many obstacles as he works his way through the dangerous crime world to the level of yakuza.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Masanobu Takashima

The series swansong, Beat '71, sees Kaji framed and sent to prison by her boyfriend's father and with the help of some hippies she strives to be...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Meiko Kaji

When an innocent young country girl falls for a low level yakuza, she enters a completely different world in which the line between good and evil are...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eiji Okuda

A detective, a mysterious beauty Ekin and other characters appear in the film. It creates a mysterious visual world that takes us one step further...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Yoshio Harada

Nursing home "Yuyoso". Many lonely old people live there, including botanist Taro Makiso, a physicist, an actor, a bar mom, and a chef. Maki has...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshio Harada

The film concerns the theme of self-imposed limitation and continues Matthew Barney's interest in religious rite, this time focusing on Shinto

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Shigeru Akahori

Steel-worker Saito Tetsuo, driven by an unexplained anxiety, steals bike after bike to move away from his hometown to Tokyo. Through snow-storms and...

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Cast: Tetta Sugimoto

A young outlaw racing through the streets of Yokohama. Will the love that slipped through his fingers like sand come back to him once again?

Genre: Action

Cast: Toshiro Yanagiba

Two of the most radical student groups form the United Red Army (URA) and head into the mountains to conduct a training camp. Ideology devolves into...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Maki Sakai

Kleptomaniac Sonoko and young, beautiful Mitsuko begin an unusual love affair which develops fast into a kinky sexual love triangle when...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Kanako Higuchi

A surreal, isolated village sees its inhabitants gradually leave behind their mutual traditions and superstitions as they leave for the city. Among...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Tsutomu Yamazaki

In different parts of Tokyo, four young and seemingly healthy people suddenly die of heart failure at exactly the same moment. Reporter Kazuyuki...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Katsunori Takahashi

Executive management of a major Tokyo construction company are getting bumped off one after another. It seems obvious that it is a former partner of...

Genre: Action

Cast: Yoshio Harada

Shiro Akitsu goes on a relentless search for his abducted 7-year-old daughter, with the aid of an Ainu dog summoned by a whistle she gave him.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

Sukezo, a former manga comic artist, takes up the art rock business by setting up a shop in a shed by the river. He tries hard to be successful, but...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Naoto Takenaka

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...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Kaori Momoi

A runaway cat-loving girl begins a love triangle with a reckless older man and a young biker in high school. The film follows their subsequent...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Atsuko Asano

A young woman aspires to be a motorboat racing champion.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eiko Kuroki

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Cast: Yoshio Harada

Japanese drama film.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Moe Kamura

Set at the height of the Japanese student rebellion in 1968, the film tells the story of the friendship between two very different men—a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takuzō Kawatani

This movie is a political/espionage thriller, based on a real kidnapping incident of Korean politician, Kim Dae-Jung.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kim Kap-soo

Hi no Sakana (火の魚, Fish of the Fire) is a Japanese novel by Murō Saisei; it was first published in 1960, and was later adapted into a single...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshio Harada

Life and love stories of stunt men and women.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masatoshi Nakamura

After the death of her mother a young woman wants to meet her real father

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshio Harada

Hiroshi Kakurai is an assassin who was thinking of retiring. He travels to an island in the Seto Inland Sea and begins to live peacefully with...

Genre: Action

Cast: Yoshio Harada

All the protagonists move about in a Tokyo Bar that has an entire wall taken up with a black-and-white reproduction of a photo of Monument Valley....

Genre: Crime

Cast: Yoshiki Arizono

An entertainment drama depicting the conflict of yakuza, centering on the female torso and her sister's feud.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Reiko Takashima

A hardened gangster encounters by chance a woman he hasn't seen since childhood. They are both engulfed in the underground world of intergang warfare.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Hiromi Go

A blind traveling musician is abused and oppressed wherever she goes, even as the modern world imposes change around her.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shima Iwashita

In Okinawa, a Japanese-Filipino gangster named Joe kills an Okinawan mobster. Joe temporarily escapes the pursuing mob by fleeing to the Philippines,...

Genre: Action

Cast: Saburo Tokito

About an establishment where old men pay to sleep besides young girls that had been narcotized and happen to be naked, the sleeping beauties. The old...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshio Harada

Yūji, fresh out of prison on parole, meets a stranger named Nao that asks for his assistance...

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Cast: Tetsuya Watari

Tadao decides to comes back from Tokyo to live in his home town, in the countryside. He stays at his parents place and finds a job, repairing...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kenichi Kaneda

The man has a monotonous job punching tickets for the Japanese railway. One night, while walking home, he saves Jun from getting raped by two...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yuya Uchida

A young outlaw can’t escape his rebellious past despite connections to a well to do family.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshio Harada

Koji Wakamatsu adapted Kouhei Tsuka's play of the same name into a human comedy about the members of a traveling acting troupe.

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Cast: Yoshio Harada

Izo is an assassin in the service of a Tosa lord and Imperial supporter. After killing dozens of the Shogun's men, Izo is captured and crucified....

Genre: Action

Cast: Kazuya Nakayama

The disbandment of the Tanno clan left gang member Tetsu to stray from the crime family's fold. He roamed the streets as a one man band, wearing a...

Genre: Action

Cast: Yoshio Harada

A new wave Yakuza film in which Takanori Jinnai plays a young Yakuza suffering from stomach cancer who has very little left to live. This film is...

Genre: Action

Cast: Takanori Jinnai

Mizusawa (Takenouchi Yutaka), an explosives expert, is arrested and charged with a string of bank robberies. Because he is a flight risk, Detective...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Yutaka Takenouchi

Young man returns from prison and sets out to destroy the gang that killed his friends and boss of his former gang.

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Cast: Tetsuya Watari

In war-torn Japan, the Tokugawa Shogun, desperate to restore peace to his people, orders the assassination of the hostile warlords. A beautiful young...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Aya Ueto

A blind master swordsman attempts to lead a quiet life with his wife but he is provoked back into battle.

Genre: Action

Cast: Shingo Katori

A middle-aged man discovers an injured refugee woman trembling in the corner of his bar in Kabukicho. He quickly becomes aware that her life is in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshio Harada

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Renji Ishibashi

Coming of age film about rock musicians.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Kikkawa

Musical star vehicle for a young Kikkawa Koji.

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Cast: Koji Kikkawa

The story of Tamikawa, a professionally and artistically burned out singer, who embarks on a search for a director named Goda. During the journey,...

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Cast: Koji Kikkawa

After his parter Ahiru is gunned down in the process of arresting criminal Bruce Sawamura, cop Joe "Joker" Kawamura goes rogue and tries to get...

Genre: Action

Cast: Seiji Matano

A directionless young man, recently released from prison, tries to make a new start in life as a boxer...

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Cast: Takeshi Yamato

A young jazz musician's desire to advance in his career runs afoul of organized crime in this thriller from Haruki Kadokawa. After a saxophonist...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hironobu Nomura

Barbara, a dancer, is coming home to Nagoya after a long absence. She lives above a bar in an area whose inhabitants are mainly from Okinawa. Upon...

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Cast: Mitsuko Baisho

A Japanese boxer stages a dramatic and dangerous comeback after suffering brain damage in the ring.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hidekazu Akai

A comedy about the lives of people living in the shopping district of Osaka.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hisahiro Ogura

The main hero of this film is the spirit of the once very popular wooden statuette called Billiken. It's a small god with a pointed head, a fat belly...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Tetta Sugimoto

On August 9, 1945, the Americans dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki. This film, based on a story by Mitsukaru Inoue, describes the daily life of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kaori Momoi

Seven young Tokyoites get scammed into working as hosts for "Dog Days" bar. Will they be able to overcome their individual differences and keep the...

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Cast: Shun Oguri

Tatsuya is on a honeymoon in Australia. A couple of unfortunate encounters land him in jail, where he’s imprisoned without a chance of ever...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masaya Katô

Katsu, who belongs to the Murai group of the Sakagami Union, was frustrated by the distance from the yakuza world he had envisioned. At that time,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Show Aikawa

A disabled child of separated parents gets caught up in police espionage due to his uncanny ability to remember license plate numbers.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mika Hijii

In this intricately layered Japanese film, the nature of actresses and what they gain from acting is explored. The lives of three actresses are laid...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mariko Okada

In 1988, Hokkaido's Hokusei Yoichi High School became the first high school in Japan to accept students who had previously dropped out of high school...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sho Sakurai