Movies: Bontarō Miake

Two car manufacturers spy on each other to try to find out details and prices of a new sports car each is about to launch....

1948 adaptation of Golden Devil...

A Japanese version of the musical comedy "Yes, Mr. Brown"...

Kanji is a poor peasant widower who struggles to earn a living for his daughter and himself and to pay off his father-in-law's debts....

Once an average and seemingly ordinary Tokyo girl, she suddenly finds herself as a TV star owing to her discovery by a casting company, which noticed photographs that her cousin had sent. When another actress falls ill she is given the role instead. ...

A young boss proves his right to rule his gang....

A young scriptwriter with a yakuza upbringing, an iron-fire dancer, a young painter, and a pure-hearted downtown girl fall in love in Asakusa in this entertaining tale of love and action....

A comedy directed by Yasuzo Masumura starring Yunosuke Ito....

1962 Japanese movie...

1945 Japanese movie...

Taki no Shiraito is a very independent young woman with a famous water juggling act in a travelling carnival troupe. She falls in love with an orphaned carriage driver Kinya Murakoshi, and pledges to put him through law school in Tokyo. She always en...

During the reign of Hidetada, the second shogun of the Tokugawa dynasty, the advisor Okubo Hikozaemon (Ganjiro Nakamura) entrusts the young Takechiyo (Hiroshi Kawaguchi) to the fishmonger Isshin Tasuke (Kazuo Hasegawa) to help him understand the worl...

Obscure Masumura film shot in 1961....

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A fishing village is terrorized by a giant whale, and the fishermen are determined to kill it....

Reiko Ike stars as the daughter of a man who has been pushed into drug dealing by the local Yakuza mob. Having outlived his usefulness to the gang he is murdered and Reiko is gang raped, leading her to attempt a knife attack on the Yakuza boss (Ryoji...

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1962 Japanese movie...

A lowly drunken samurai finds an abandoned baby in the woods and takes it home. A gift from a fox. But there's something special about the boy....

The magical swordsman battles a gang of cutthroats, who are led by a peg-legged villain....