Akira Hisamatsu Trailers
Time of First Love TrailerA Woman Called Sada Abe TrailerRetreat Through the Wet Wasteland Trailer
Time of First Love TrailerA Woman Called Sada Abe TrailerRetreat Through the Wet Wasteland Trailer
Total trailers found: 66
13 October 1963
One summer day, the chief monk of the Hojuin Temple dies. Harumichi rushes back to town hearing about his brother's death and requests for a grand funeral.
18 March 1972
Oman travels from Shanghai to Japan in search of her mother, only to be betrayed by her companion and sold to a brothel, where she becomes a geisha and gambler.
25 March 1959
1958 Newspaper Association Sweepstakes Winning Broadcast Drama Movie. A heartwarming and moving story that bloomed behind the competition between two newspaper reporters, one young and the other old, who followed the whereabouts of the distressed aircraft.
31 August 1955
In the dying months of the Meiji era, a sympathetic student befriends a married couple, but soon realizes they share a curiously strained relationship stemming from an unknown incident in their past.
03 October 1964
Two brothers seek revenge on the yakuza responsible for the death of their father.
23 November 1960
This rarely seen gem from master Suzuki casts teenage heartthrob Koji Wada as a young misfit who suddenly finds himself the unwitting pawn in an escalating family feud that ultimately leads to tragedy.
08 March 1957
A bus making its precarious way across a winding mountain road picks up some unwelcome passengers.
21 April 1963
When a mysterious stranger muscles into two rival yakuza gangs, Tokyo's underworld explodes with violence.
01 November 1963
Azusa has just been discharged from the hospital and is frolicking on the beach in Jushi, finally getting her freedom.
10 April 1966
After yakuza boss Kurata dissolves his own criminal empire, a rival kingpin offers a position to Kurata's top operative, Tetsuya "Phoenix Tetsu" Hondo.
09 November 1966
Kiroku boards with a Roman Catholic family and falls for the daughter Michiko. He ignores his feelings, joins a gang, gets in fights and, eventually, becomes involved with the radical Kita Ikki group.
22 November 1964
The tragic tale of Kiyono, a young woman from the mountain who fell in love with Takuji, a fisherman's son, and her devotion to him during a time of war.
27 February 1965
Volunteering as a "comfort woman" on the Manchurian front, where she is expected to service hundreds of soldiers, Harumi is commandeered by the brutal Lieutenant Narita but falls for the sensitive Mikami, Narita's direct subordinate.
01 February 1961
A college student takes over the family business in the field of organised crime.
11 July 1956
A yakuza boss and his right-hand, Hawasaki, escape from prison. the film concentrates on their relationship, emphasizing loyalty and thier eventual betrayal, enroute they get involved in money trafficking, a cop killing and horse racing scams before the inevitable tragic ending.
24 December 1961
A young man travels to Egypt and becomes embroiled in an independence movement by chance. Produced entirely on location overseas, which was groundbreaking at the time.
08 February 1975
The young and beautiful Sada Abe, the daughter of a rich merchant, is banished for losing her virginity after being raped by a college student.
31 May 1964
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 tenuous friendships and a semblance of order in a world of chaos.
23 November 1963
Handsome young Katsuta tries to follow the yakuza code, but even his boss doesn't believe in it. Diamond Fuyu is less ethical, and allows the idiotic Tetsu to trick a schoolgirl he fancies, Hanako, into a type of bonded prostitution.
16 November 1960
Fourth installment of Nikkatsu's "Drifter" series, with Kobayashi Akira.
15 June 1967
After botching his latest assignment, a third-ranked Japanese hit man becomes the target of another assassin.
03 June 1961
Ryoji, a wanderer, arrives in a remote mountain town, carrying a shotgun and claiming to be a hunter.
20 July 1960
A young chef at a small restaurant in Asakusa, with a past conviction for breaking into a safe, defeats the evil boss and ends up marrying his lover.
28 June 1972
Based on a traditional Japanese ghost story, the movie follows a man who falls deeply in love with a mysterious woman, only to find she belongs to the world of the dead.
08 September 1959
The story deals with a juvenile delinquent gang surviving through petty thievery. However, everything gets screwed up when they accidentally steal big bucks from the Yakuza.
13 November 1965
After his own gang sets him up to kill a rival mobster, a hit man is forced to flee with his younger brother.
27 January 1960
A sniper kills two prisoners in a police van, and the driver sets out to find the killer.
19 April 1972
Kiyomi, a popular hostess at a bar in Shinjuku, has a traumatic childhood that makes her only sensitive to sexual intercourse with women.
25 June 1960
Katiri is a reporter so ambitiously amoral that he’ll sell out anyone—including his partner and the drug dealer he’s sleeping with—to get a scoop.
23 June 1973
A group of corrupt police detectives go on a manhunt for an ex-collogue who they believe could blow their whole rotten operation wide open.
21 September 1963
Based on the loosely autobiographical novel of the same name by Toko Kon. Ken Yamanouchi stars as Togo Konno, the titular bastard.
27 August 1961
On summer vacation, university student Shintaro gets involved with a magic troupe as they travel from festival to festival.
20 June 1962
A high-school vigilante protects his community from the extortions of mobsters from a neighbouring city.
23 January 1962
A life insurance agent has a drinking problem causing him to lose his company a fortune. He heads to another town to sell insurance, but to his surprise, the elderly are all healthy thanks to a special local sake.
29 June 1958
Nobuo is a hot-headed hoodlum fresh out of reform school who struggles to make a clean break with his tearaway past.
11 September 1963
A youth drama directed by Kiyoshi Horiike, who was adapted from "Young Tokyo no Yane" by Akira Saiga from "Oka wa Hanazakari" based on Yojiro Ishizaka.
06 September 1972
Roman Porno film depicting the great uproar that the children cause in the division of their property, even before their parents are dead, as they claw at their greed.
28 June 1956
A romantic adventure tale about a young guy working on a whale-hunting vessel and his love for a childhood sweetheart.
09 April 1960
A newspaper reporter's search for his girlfriend's missing father lead him into heart of the criminal underworld of Yokohama's Chinatown.
22 October 1958
Asako, a former telephone operator once heard the voice of a murder suspect which has continued to haunt her.
26 December 1963
Ryuji Oshima, a gambler, kills Saiga in self-defense, and considering himself unfit to lead men, secludes himself in a temple to atone for his misdeeds.
29 April 1972
Shuichi and Nobuko are an ordinary, young couple, a promising company employee and his pretty wife. They think nothing can mar their peaceful life but nothing is permanent in this world and Shuichi's company goes bankrupt.
06 March 1961
One of Sayuri Yoshinaga's first leading roles.