The Son of the Black Mass returns in this ninth installment in Daiei's longstanding Nemuri Kyoshiro series. This time Raizo Ichikawa as Nemuri is called to see that a gold statuette of the Virgin Mary gets safe passage to Kyoto from the prying hands of a sect of murderous Christian ronin that call themselves the Black Finger Group.

Sound of the Mountain

1954

Japanese

7.7

♡ 11

94%

Action

adultery

Drama

dysfunctional marriage

japan

parent-in-law child-in-law relationship

pregnancy

tokyo, japan

Mikio Naruse Director

Nobuo Kaneko as

Tsuruko Mano as

Machiko Kitagawa as

Setsuko Hara as Ogata Kikuko

An ingratiating bride develops warm ties to her father-in-law while her cold husband blithely slights her for another woman.

Nihon bôryôku rettô: Keihanshin koroshi no gundan

1975

Japanese

5.9

♡ 2

Action

Crime

yakuza

Kôsaku Yamashita Director

Tatsuo Endô as

Tatsuo Umemiya as

Nobuo Kaneko as

Ryôko Ema as

A violent upstart forms an alliance with the powerful Tensei-kai syndicate to fight on the front lines of an underworld war and take over all of Japan.

Dangerous Trade in Kobe

1973

Japanese

6.7

♡ 3

smuggling (contraband)

Eiichi Kudô Director

Tatsuo Endô as

Yuriko Mishima as

Nobuo Kaneko as

Rena Ichinose as

Using a lesser mobster as bait a government agent infiltrates a narcotics-smuggling gang to try to capture the boss. But his survival has a price.

The Imperial Navy

1981

Japanese

6.5

♡ 7

Action

Drama

imperial japanese navy

Shûe Matsubayashi Director

Jun Tazaki as

Masao Imanishi as

Hisaya Morishige as

Nobuo Kaneko as Chuichi Nagumo

A lavish retelling of the true story of the final voyage and ultimate destruction and sinking of the battleship Yamato, Japan's greatest flagship during the Second World War.

Akai hankachi

1964

Japanese

6.8

♡ 2

Action

Crime

Toshio Masuda Director

Shinsuke Ashida as

Ruriko Asaoka as

Nobuo Kaneko as

Hideaki Nitani as

A hot-shot detective in Yokohama kills a witness during a drug investigation. He flees to the countryside and evades his past for several years, only to return to find the woman he loved married to his former partner. He searches for answers to his troubled past, knowing that his inevitable doomed fate is more or less sealed.

Youth of the Beast

1963

Japanese

7.3

♡ 11

86%

Seijun Suzuki Director

Toshihiko Oda as

Mizuho Suzuki as Detective Hirokawa

Nobuo Kaneko as Sôichi Ozawa

Yûzô Kiura as Takeo Minegishi

When a mysterious stranger muscles into two rival yakuza gangs, Tokyo's underworld explodes with violence.

Fight, Zatoichi, Fight

1964

Japanese

7.4

♡ 8

78%

Kenji Misumi Director

Kôji Fujiyama as

Shôsaku Sugiyama as Hangoro

Hizuru Takachiho as Ko

Nobuo Kaneko as Unosuke

Blind swordsman/masseuse Zatoichi befriends a young woman returning home with her baby. When gangsters mistake her for Zatoichi and kill her, Zatoichi determines to escort the baby to its father. He gains the reluctant help of a young pick pocket and together they travel to find the baby's father. But they do not reckon on the father's reaction to their arrival, nor on their own growing feelings for the child.

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.

Battles Without Honor and Humanity

1973

Japanese

7.4

♡ 13

90%

Kinji Fukasaku Director

Tatsuo Endô as

Takeshi Katô as

Takashi Ebata as Constable Maekawa

Nobuo Kaneko as Yamamori

In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a new war between factious and ambitious yakuza.

Hungry Soul, Part II

1956

Japanese

6.9

♡ 2

Action

Drama

Romance

Yûzô Kawashima Director

Ryôji Hayama as

Miyuki Kuwano as Akiko Ajioka

Yumi Takano as MIchiyo Ajioka

Nobuo Kaneko as Reiji Ajioka

A continuation of Hungry Soul, from the same year. Reiko, who tolerates abuse in her marriage to a man 23 years her senior, is friends with Mayumi, a beautiful widow. Reiko meets her husband’s business rival, a young, capable businessman, and falls for him. Meanwhile, Mayumi enters into a relationship with Shimotsuma, a friend of her late husband.

Police Tactics

1974

Japanese

7.3

♡ 5

Kinji Fukasaku Director

Takeshi Katô as

Mizuho Suzuki as

Tatsuo Endô as Aihara

Nobuo Kaneko as Yamamori

As Japan gears up for the 1964 Olympic games, the cops start to crack down on the gangs, under pressure from the public and the press, adding a new dimension in the war for power among the yakuza families of Hiroshima.

Final Episode

1974

Japanese

7.3

♡ 7

Kinji Fukasaku Director

Yumiko Nogawa as

Hiroko Fuji as

Kunie Tanaka as Makihara Masakichi

Nobuo Kaneko as Yamamori

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 their thirst for power.

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Tokyo Knights

Sleepy Eyes of Death: A Trail of Traps

Sound of the Mountain

Nihon bôryôku rettô: Keihanshin koroshi no gundan

Dangerous Trade in Kobe

The Imperial Navy

Akai hankachi

Youth of the Beast

Fight, Zatoichi, Fight

Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell Bastards!

Battles Without Honor and Humanity

Hungry Soul, Part II

Police Tactics

Final Episode