The Man with a Shotgun

1961

Japanese

6.3

♡ 4

Action

Crime

Seijun Suzuki Director

Akira Takahashi as

Izumi Ashikawa as

Yûji Odaka as (as Yuji Kodaka)

Takashi Ebata as Ken

Ryoji, a wanderer, arrives in a remote mountain town, carrying a shotgun and claiming to be a hunter. He quickly becomes embroiled in a web of trouble surrounding the town's mill.

Double Bed

1983

Japanese

5.7

♡ 4

Toshiya Fujita Director

Akira Takahashi as

Daisuke Iijima as

Bang-ho Cho as Man in Library

Miyoko Akaza as Ueno's Wife

Kato is a small time TV producer. He has a wife Masako, and a young son Taro. Kato also has a friend Yamazaki who he knew since college. Yamazaki has a girl friend Riko who lives with her younger sister Yuko who's an actress. Yamazaki is a lyric writer/womanizer and he starts to have an affair with Masako, but he's still going out with Riko.

Girl's Pleasure: Man Hunting

1977

Japanese

5.4

♡ 18

Action

Drama

Thriller

Toshiya Fujita Director

Ryôichi Satô as

Akira Takahashi as Kanji Yamamura , Rapist

Keizô Kanie as Mickey Tokuda

Moeko Ezawa as Yoshie Mita

Two high school friends. One witnesses the breakup of her family after a brutal home invasion. The other loses her virginity to an African-American soldier. Together they make a vital discovery and exact violent revenge.

Our Blood Will Not Forgive

1964

Japanese

6.3

♡ 2

Action

Crime

Seijun Suzuki Director

Akira Takahashi as

Ken Mizoguchi as

Chikako Hosokawa as Hatsu Asari

Hideki Takahashi as Shin'ji Asari

Two brothers seek revenge on the yakuza responsible for the death of their father.

Kurenai no nagareboshi

1967

Japanese

6.7

♡ 1

Toshio Masuda Director

Akira Takahashi as

Takeshi Yoshida as

Ruriko Asaoka as

Zenji Yamada as

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 manages to stay one step ahead of the law. In his exile, he comes under suspicion for a murder and meets the girlfriend of the murdered man. They develop a strange bond while unbeknown to Goro, another hitman is after him for the job he did in Tokyo.

Oh! Woman: A Dirty Song

1981

Japanese

5.6

♡ 7

Tatsumi Kumashiro Director

Akira Takahashi as

Rumi Tama as Female Guest in Bath House

Renji Ishibashi as Guest in Japanese Bar

Rikiya Yasuoka as Yutaka

George is a washed-up middle-aged punk rocker, who divorces his wife and lives with his girlfriend, a soap massage parlor worker. His life becomes even more of a mess when the nurse he raped moves in with them.

Distant Thunder

1981

Japanese

6.9

♡ 1

Action

Drama

Kichitaro Negishi Director

Toshiyuki Kitami as

Akira Takahashi as Father of Ayako

Rie Yokoyama as Kaede

Akemi Negishi as Mother of Hirotsugu

A young man living on growing tomatoes in a greenhouse in a residential area. Tomato cultivation is as doomed as his personal life where he tries to keep alive his romance with the eccentric Kaede and parents selected fiancee Ayako.

Fighting Elegy

1966

Japanese

6.9

♡ 2

74%

Action

based on memoir or autobiography

Comedy

Drama

roman catholic

roman catholic church

sexual repression

young love

youth gang

Seijun Suzuki Director

Akira Takahashi as

Ken Mizoguchi as

Hiroshi Tachikawa as

Yûsuke Kawazu as Suppon 'Turtle'

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.

Blue Rain Ôsaka

1983

Japanese

4.4

♡ 5

Masaru Konuma Director

Akira Takahashi as

Kiriko Shimizu as Machiko Uzaki

Kazuyo Ezaki as Miyuki

Moeko Ezawa as Nobue Ezaki

A woman who runs a bar with her older sister has her life disrupted when she has a chance meeting with an old lover.

Story of a Prostitute

1965

Japanese

7.3

♡ 5

81%

Seijun Suzuki Director

Akira Takahashi as

Ken Mizoguchi as

Hiroshi Tachikawa as

Yumiko Nogawa as Harumi

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. Seijun Suzuki's Story of a Prostitute is a tragic love story as well as a rule-bending take on a popular Taijiro Tamura novel, challenging military and fraternal codes of honor, as seen through Harumi's eyes.

Branded to Kill

1967

Japanese

7.2

♡ 20

100%

Seijun Suzuki Director

Akira Takahashi as

Ken Mizoguchi as

Takashi Nomura as

Jô Shishido as Gorô Hanada

After botching his latest assignment, a third-ranked Japanese hit man becomes the target of another assassin.

Flower and Snake

1974

Japanese

5.6

♡ 16

Masaru Konuma Director

Akira Takahashi as

Toshihiko Oda as

Hiroko Fuji as Miyo Katagiri

Naomi Tani as Shizuko Tôyama

Shizuka is the aristocratic wife of the president of a large company. When she wants to divorce her domineering husband, he orders his employee Yoshi, the son of an adult toy store owner, to train his wife to become sexually submissive.

Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell Bastards!

1963

Japanese

6.8

♡ 2

61%

Seijun Suzuki Director

Akira Takahashi as

Hiroshi Tachikawa as

Nobuo Kaneko as Inspector Kumagai

Yûko Kusunoki as Misa

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 munitions, Tajima steps in to stop what the cops can't.

Bloody Territories

1969

Japanese

6.5

♡ 6

Yasuharu Hasebe Director

Akira Takahashi as

Ryôji Hayama as Kazuo Itakura, Itakura Clan boss

Tadao Nakamaru as Seiichi Yatô, Oonogi Clan second-in-command

Kichijirô Ueda as Terashima, the loan shark

A once-powerful yakuza clan disbands as a result of a police crackdown, but one small group refuses to bow to police pressure, and launches a campaign to take over Tokyo's drug, prostitution, and gambling rackets. Someone wants to stop them. Is it the police? Rival gang members? Or is it an entirely new group of hired killers who will stop at nothing to gain complete control of Tokyo's "bloody territories"?

Carlos

1991

Japanese

6.6

♡ 2

Kazuhiro Kiuchi Director

Akira Takahashi as

Shunsuke Sakuya as

Minoru Ôki as

Naoto Takenaka as Carlos

V-cinema classic about a wanted Brazilian Japanese gangster who flees to Tokyo and fights yakuza.

Ryûji

1983

Japanese

6.8

♡ 2

Tôru Kawashima Director

Akira Takahashi as

Takashi Sasano as

Asami Ogawa as Momo

Momo as Aya, Ryuji and Mariko's daughter

Ryuji tries quitting the yakuza to actively support his wife and daughter; as he's used to easy money, it's a difficult transition.

Star of David: Beautiful Girl Hunter

1979

Japanese

5.9

♡ 23

Noribumi Suzuki Director

Mayumi Nakamura as

Natsuko Yashiro as Jun / Singer

Akira Takahashi as Old Detective with Hat

Yûko Asuka as Tokie / Tatsuya's mother

The film portrays the life of Tatsuya, a young man of proper descent whose outward respectability hides his urges for rape and torture. This handsome rapist seduces women, then brings them to the basement of the mansion he inherited from his well-to-do parents, where he indulges in lengthy sessions of sado-sexual violence. Based on manga by Masaaki Sato.

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The Man with a Shotgun

Double Bed

Girl's Pleasure: Man Hunting

Our Blood Will Not Forgive

Kurenai no nagareboshi

Oh! Woman: A Dirty Song

Distant Thunder

Fighting Elegy

Blue Rain Ôsaka

Story of a Prostitute

Branded to Kill

Flower and Snake

Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell Bastards!

Bloody Territories

Carlos

Ryûji

Star of David: Beautiful Girl Hunter