Bontarō Miake Movies

Gotō Matabei is the most able and fierce samurai of the Kuroda clan. However, he gradually dislikes the ruthless personality of Kuroda Nagamasa...

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.

When pickpocketing runs rampant, detectives step up their game. Yazaki, a detective at the Ohira Private Detective Agency who graduated from the...

World War II era Japanese adaptation of the popular French play Marius, from over a decade before. A youth is torn between his girlfriend and his...

In the prewar days leading up to the Second Sino-Japanese War of 1937, head flight instructor Lt. Katō Tateo of the Imperial Japanese Army-Air...

A war breaks out on the streets between rivaling Yakuza clans.

Kinichi and Akiko meet when they visit their fathers in prison. After successfully gambling on a bicycle race, they spend an enjoyable day together...

After a businessman is murdered, an investigation identifies a suspect who is then put on trial for that crime.

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...

Obscure Masumura film shot in 1961.

In 1963, Funaki Kazuo's debut song of the same name was released and then it was adapted to a movie based on Kenji Tomishima 's novel “Shake to...

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.

13th in the 17 film Daiei "Woman Gambler" series

A dispute over the estate of a wealthy family’s patriarch erupts between the son’s widow and her child on one side, and the...

1961 Theater of Life adaptation.

During the reign of Hidetada, the second shogun of the Tokugawa dynasty, the advisor Okubo Hikozaemon (Ganjiro Nakamura) entrusts the young Takechiyo...

The exciting story of Jirocho and his yakuza gang that controlled the area of the Tokaido during the latter days of the samurai era. Awesome...

A female reporter is fired for writing about police corruption; to make money while hiding from the press, she posts a bounty upon herself.

This film begins with a teacher describing to his students how brave the crew was which died as result of Japan's first submarine accident. The film...