Japanese films book list
by PeacefulAnarchy | created - 17 Jan 2015 | updated - 24 Jan 2015 | Public- Instant Watch Options
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1. Abashiri Prison (1965)
92 min | Crime, Drama
Shinichi is a good guy serving three years and approaching the end of his time. He escapes handcuffed to dangerous Gunda, who instigated the escape. Thus tethered, they start out on a journey across the desolate snow country of Hokkaido.
Director: Teruo Ishii | Stars: Ken Takakura, Kôji Nanbara, Tetsurô Tanba, Tôru Abe
Votes: 292
2. Zoku Abashiri bangaichi (1965)
87 min | Crime
Tachibana has completed his three years in prison and returns to the streets. He and his old cell mate wants a new life as ex-prisoners, but by chance they come across some jewels from a bloody bank robbery.
Director: Teruo Ishii | Stars: Ken Takakura, Michiko Saga, Tôru Abe, Kunie Tanaka
Votes: 54
3. Abashiri bangaichi: Bôkyô hen (1965)
89 min | Action, Crime
Shin'Ichi returns home to visit his mother's grave. Upon returning he finds the mess that his previous reckless behavior left behind. His old boss, Asahi, was attacked after Shin'Ichi left and was forced to give up a lot of of his power.
Director: Teruo Ishii | Stars: Ken Takakura, Hiroko Sakuramachi, Naoki Sugiura, Kunie Tanaka
Votes: 64
4. Abashiri bangaichi: Hokkai hen (1965)
90 min | Action, Crime
The inmate Takakura is set free and he takes a job to drive a truck through snowy Hokkaido.
Director: Teruo Ishii | Stars: Ken Takakura, Kanjûrô Arashi, Kunie Tanaka, Naoki Sugiura
Votes: 21
5. Abashiri bangaichi: Dai setsugen no taiketsu (1966)
90 min | Crime
Director: Teruo Ishii | Stars: Ken Takakura, Reiko Ôhara, Teruo Yoshida, Kunie Tanaka
Votes: 9
6. Abashiri Bangaichi: Koya no taiketsu (1966)
89 min | Crime
A strange episode with Takakura involved with horse-breeders and, at one point, getting revenge on at the guy who killed his Shetland pony.
Director: Teruo Ishii | Stars: Ken Takakura, Yôko Mihara, Jun Tazaki, Naoki Sugiura
Votes: 17
7. Abashiri Bangaichi: Nangoku no Taiketsu (1966)
88 min | Crime
Takakura and his friend Tanaka comes across a pick pocketing kid.
Director: Teruo Ishii | Stars: Ken Takakura, Shin'ichi Chiba, Teruo Yoshida, Reiko Ôhara
Votes: 15
8. Abashiri Bangaichi: Aku eno Chôsen (1967)
90 min | Crime
Director: Teruo Ishii | Stars: Ken Takakura, Kanjûrô Arashi, Kunie Tanaka, Masonobu Hondaka
Votes: 10
9. Abashiri bangaichi: Kettô reika 30 do (1967)
88 min | Action, Crime
Director: Teruo Ishii | Stars: Ken Takakura, Kanjûrô Arashi, Kunie Tanaka, Hiyumi Yoshino
Votes: 14
10. Abashiri bangaichi: Fubuki no tôsô (1967)
88 min | Action
Director: Teruo Ishii | Stars: Ken Takakura, Rin'ichi Yamamoto, Hayato Tani, Junko Miyazono
Votes: 21
11. Shin Abashiri Bangaichi (1968)
94 min | Drama
Director: Masahiro Makino | Stars: Ken Takakura, Tatsuya Mihashi, Hiroyuki Nagato, Rin'ichi Yamamoto
Votes: 22
12. Shin Abashiri Bangaichi: Runin-masaki no ketto (1969)
109 min | Action, Crime
After causing problems, Ken Takahara is transferred from Abashiri to the honor factory at Tanigawa Prison. When the local yakuza gang is hired to destroy the factory, Takahara has to take violent action to save it.
Director: Yasuo Furuhata | Stars: Ken Takakura, Takashi Shimura, Kaneko Iwasaki, Minoru Ôki
Votes: 29
13. Shin Abashiri Bangaichi: Saihate no Nagare-mono (1969)
93 min | Action, Crime
Director: Kiyoshi Saeki | Stars: Ken Takakura, Takashi Shimura, Kaneko Iwaskura, Minoru Ôki
Votes: 21
14. Shin Abashiri Bangaichi: Dai Shinrin no Ketto (1970)
105 min | Crime
Director: Yasuo Furuhata | Stars: Ken Takakura, Jô Shishido, Shunji Imai, Yuriko Hoshi
15. Shin Abashiri Bangaichi: Fubuki no Hagure Okami (1970)
107 min | Crime
Director: Yasuo Furuhata | Stars: Ken Takakura, Tomisaburô Wakayama, Masumi Okada, June Adams
16. New Prison Walls of Abashiri Stormy Cape (1971)
105 min | Crime
Former inmate Katsuji gets involved in the horse gambling business while lending a helping hand to a ranch operator.
Director: Yasuo Furuhata | Stars: Ken Takakura, Tatsuya Mihashi, Noboru Andô, Rin'ichi Yamamoto
Votes: 12
17. Shin Abashiri Bangaichi: Fubuki no Dai-Dassou (1971)
110 min | Crime
Director: Yasuo Furuhata | Stars: Ken Takakura, Kunie Tanaka, Noboru Andô, Toshio Kurosawa
Votes: 8
18. Shin abashiri bangaichi: arashi yobu danpu jingi (1972)
105 min
Director: Yasuo Furuhata | Stars: Teruo Shimizu, Gôzô Sôma, Nobuo Yana, Ken Takakura
19. Yukinojô henge: Daiippen (1935)
97 min | Drama
Director: Teinosuke Kinugasa | Stars: Kazuo Hasegawa, Tokusaburô Arashi, Kokuten Kôdô, Naoe Fushimi
Votes: 60
20. Yukinojô henge: Kaiketsu-hen (1936)
111 min | Drama
Director: Teinosuke Kinugasa | Stars: Kazuo Hasegawa, Tokusaburô Arashi, Kokuten Kôdô, Kensaku Hara
21. Joyu (1947)
115 min | Drama
Sumako, a country girl, becomes a great actress with the help of Hogetsu,a scholar who brought some of European realism to the Japan's stage. The relationship leads to the end of his marriage and the breakup of his Arts Society.
Director: Teinosuke Kinugasa | Stars: Isuzu Yamada, Michiko Araki, Eitarô Shindô, Hisaya Morishige
Votes: 24
22. Father of the Kamikaze (1974)
199 min | Drama, War
The historical drama follows the wartime experiences of the respected admiral who attempted to force America into considering a negotiated peace during World War Two.
Director: Kôsaku Yamashita | Stars: Kôji Tsuruta, Noboru Andô, Shinjirô Ebara, Tatsuo Endô
Votes: 77
24. Capricious Young Man (1936)
77 min | Comedy, Drama
Akanishi Kakita moved from the countryside to a big city. Although he comes from the samurai class, he now lives in poverty among the common people in times of rebellion, but the failed Kakita is not skilled in martial arts.
Director: Mansaku Itami | Stars: Chiezô Kataoka, Shôsaku Sugiyama, Sôjin Kamiyama, Yôko Umemura
Votes: 124
25. Army (1944)
Not Rated | 87 min | Drama, War
A widow raises her sickly son to be strong enough to join the army and fight on the front lines.
Director: Keisuke Kinoshita | Stars: Chishû Ryû, Ken Mitsuda, Kazumasa Hoshino, Kinuyo Tanaka
Votes: 396
26. An Autumn Afternoon (1962)
Not Rated | 113 min | Drama
An aging widower arranges a marriage for his only daughter.
Director: Yasujirô Ozu | Stars: Chishû Ryû, Shima Iwashita, Keiji Sada, Mariko Okada
Votes: 10,683
27. The Bad Sleep Well (1960)
Not Rated | 151 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A vengeful young man marries the daughter of a corrupt industrialist in order to seek justice for his father's suicide.
Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Masayuki Mori, Kyôko Kagawa, Tatsuya Mihashi
Votes: 14,008
28. The Battle of Port Arthur (1980)
185 min | Drama, History, War
The lives and battles of soldiers leading up to the 1904 siege of Port Arthur during the Russo-Japanese War.
Director: Toshio Masuda | Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Teruhiko Aoi, Toshirô Mifune, Hisaya Morishige
Votes: 338
29. Battle Royale (2000)
Not Rated | 114 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill one another under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.
Director: Kinji Fukasaku | Stars: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Aki Maeda, Tarô Yamamoto, Chiaki Kuriyama
Votes: 194,387
30. Battle Royale II (2003)
Not Rated | 155 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Three years after the failure of the last BR program, a second act is forged and a class of students is sent to an island with one objective: kill international terrorist Shuya Nanahara.
Directors: Kenta Fukasaku, Kinji Fukasaku | Stars: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Ai Maeda, Shûgo Oshinari, Ayana Sakai
Votes: 21,442
31. Under the Flag of the Rising Sun (1972)
96 min | Drama, Mystery, War
One woman's search to find the truth about her husband's death in World War II.
Director: Kinji Fukasaku | Stars: Tetsurô Tanba, Sachiko Hidari, Shinjirô Ebara, Isao Natsuyagi
Votes: 1,169
32. Daitokai: Rôdô-hen (1929)
Drama
Director: Kiyohiko Ushihara | Stars: Denmei Suzuki, Hideo Fujino, Kinuyo Tanaka, Jun Arai
33. A Billionaire (1954)
83 min | Comedy
Black comedy in which the various characters an honest young tax collector encounters, as he tries to enforce the law, present a scathing portrait of post WWII corruption, immorality, poverty, insanity, and the fear of atomic war.
Director: Kon Ichikawa | Stars: Isao Kimura, Yoshiko Kuga, Isuzu Yamada, Yûnosuke Itô
Votes: 32
34. Black Test Car (1962)
Not Rated | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
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.
Director: Yasuzô Masumura | Stars: Jirô Tamiya, Junko Kanô, Eiji Funakoshi, Hideo Takamatsu
Votes: 628
35. Black Rain (1989)
Not Rated | 123 min | Drama, War
The story of the aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing, based on Masuji Ibuse's novel.
Director: Shôhei Imamura | Stars: Yoshiko Tanaka, Kazuo Kitamura, Etsuko Ichihara, Shôichi Ozawa
Votes: 3,951
36. Boy (1969)
97 min | Drama
A young boy reluctantly aids his swindling father in a threatening scam.
Director: Nagisa Ôshima | Stars: Fumio Watanabe, Akiko Koyama, Tetsuo Abe, Tsuyoshi Kinoshita
Votes: 1,884
37. Branded to Kill (1967)
Not Rated | 91 min | Action, Crime, Drama
After a botched assignment, a rice-fetishizing hitman finds himself in conflict with his organization, and one mysterious, dangerous fellow-hitman in particular.
Director: Seijun Suzuki | Stars: Jô Shishido, Mariko Ogawa, Annu Mari, Kôji Nanbara
Votes: 10,208
38. The Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family (1941)
105 min | Drama
When the patriarch of the Toda family suddenly dies, his widow discovers that he has left her with nothing but debt and married children who are unwilling to support her--except for her most thoughtful son, just returned from China.
Director: Yasujirô Ozu | Stars: Mieko Takamine, Shin Saburi, Hideo Fujino, Ayako Katsuragi
Votes: 1,432
39. Carmen Comes Home (1951)
86 min | Comedy
A girl who had left her home village for life in Tokyo returns to her home years later, and evokes a scandal when the locals discover that she's a stripper.
Director: Keisuke Kinoshita | Stars: Hideko Takamine, Shûji Sano, Chishû Ryû, Kuniko Igawa
Votes: 701
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