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7.7

♡ 11

94%

adultery

parent-in-law child-in-law relationship

dysfunctional marriage

japan

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.

The Shogun Assassins

1979

6.5

♡ 7

Sadao Nakajima Director

Nobuo Kaneko as Hayashi Razan

Hiroyuki Sanada as Miyoshi Isa / Yoon Sam-yeong

Reiichi Hatanaka as Official

Mieko Takamine as Yodogimi

This is a film about a real person. Sanada Yukimura fought a war against Tokugawa Ieyasu.

Nihon bôryôku rettô: Keihanshin koroshi no gundan

1975

5.9

♡ 2

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.

Nihon no Don: Kanketsuhen

1978

6.7

♡ 6

Crime

Sadao Nakajima Director

Nobuo Kaneko as Hirayama

Toshirô Mifune as Kosuke Oishi

Yoshio Inaba as Satomi

Sayoko Ninomiya as Toshiko Ichinomiya

The three-film saga comes to a conclusion as three leaders of the underworld battle it out to determine who will become Don of Japan.

Dangerous Trade in Kobe

1973

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.

Girl Boss: Crazy Ball Game

1974

5.9

♡ 3

Ikuo Sekimoto Director

Nobuo Kaneko as Einosuke Oki

Masataka Naruse as Kiyoshi

Ryôko Ema as Mina

Kinji Nakamura as Tasaka

Released from reform school, the Girl Boss and her girl gang enter into conflict with another girl gang who are allied to the powerful Yakuza Boss.

The Imperial Navy

1981

6.5

♡ 7

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

6.8

♡ 2

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.

Intimidation

1960

7.2

♡ 3

89%

Koreyoshi Kurahara Director

Nobuo Kaneko as Kyosuke Takita

Kô Nishimura as Matakichi Nakaike

Zenji Yamada as Ono

Mari Shiraki as Umeha

Koreyoshi Kurahara's ingeniously plotted, pocket-size noir concerns the intertwined fates of a desperate bank manager, blackmailed for book-cooking, and his resentful but timid underling, passed over for a promotion. The marvelously moody Intimidation is an elegantly stripped-down and carefully paced crime drama.

New Battles Without Honor and Humanity

1974

6.9

♡ 3

Kinji Fukasaku Director

Tomisaburô Wakayama as Aoki Naotake

Kunie Tanaka as Gen Sakagami

Tsunehiko Watase as Noboru Kitami

Nobuo Kaneko as Yamamori

Bunta Sugawara is Miyoshi, a low-level assassin of the Yamamori gang who is sent to jail after a bungled hit. While in stir, family member Aoki attempts to seize power from the boss, and Miyoshi finds himself stuck between the two factions with no honorable way out.

Man Who Causes a Storm

1957

6.2

♡ 2

Umetsugu Inoue Director

Yumi Takano as Aiko, Miyako's mother

Mie Kitahara as Miyako Fukushima

Masumi Okada as Shinsuke, Miyako's brother

Nobuo Kaneko as Toru Sakyo, the critic

Shoichi Kokubun (Yujiro Ishihara) is a roughneck street musician, who has a brother that is determined to propel him into stardom. In attempt to catch the attention of a popular jazz band, his brother appeals to their manager who has the power to make him a star. In a graphic portrayal of love, betrayal and success, Shoichi brews up a storm with a 'rat-a-tat-tat' on the drums.

Big Time Gambling Boss

1968

7.5

♡ 2

Kôsaku Yamashita Director

Ryôta Minowada as Sakichi Ichikawa

Kôji Tsuruta as Shinjirô Nakai

Tomisaburô Wakayama as Tetsuo Matsuda

Nobuo Kaneko as Tsasburô Sannami

Tokyo, 1934. The boss of the clan that controls gambling agonizes and some of his followers propose to Nakai to take his place, but he refuses the offer.

Youth of the Beast

1963

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.

Hell

1979

6.6

♡ 8

Tatsumi Kumashiro Director

Mieko Harada as Aki Mizunuma / Miho Ikegata

Nobuo Kaneko as Emma Daio

Renji Ishibashi as Matsuo Ikegata

Ken Nishida as Ryuzo Ikegata

Hell manifests itself through the sins, shame and desires of an upper class rural family and a mother's grief from beyond the grave.

Fight, Zatoichi, Fight

1964

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.

Floating Clouds

1955

7.6

♡ 12

82%

based on novel or book

Mikio Naruse Director

Fuyuki Murakami as Futsuin no shikensho-chou

Nobuo Kaneko as Futsuin no shoin - Suitou

Masayuki Mori as Kengo Tomioka

Hideko Takamine as Yukiko Koda

A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young Japanese typist and promises to leave his wife. He doesn't and after the war, she turns up and the affair resumes.

Hiroshima Death Match

1973