With Kokusai Hoei (Sorted by Popularity Ascending)
1. Monkey (1978–2004)
Action, Family, Adventure
An adaptation of a Chinese folktale about a pilgrimage to the West undertaken by a monk and his divine guardians.
Stars: Masaaki Sakai, Shirô Kishibe, Masako Natsume, Miriam Margolyes
Votes: 1,810
2. Jigoku (1960)
Not Rated | 101 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A group of sinners involved in interconnected tales of murder, revenge, deceit and adultery all meet at the Gates of Hell.
Director: Nobuo Nakagawa | Stars: Shigeru Amachi, Utako Mitsuya, Yôichi Numata, Hiroshi Hayashi
Votes: 4,079
3. Attack from Space (1965 TV Movie)
76 min | Action, Sci-Fi
Benevolent aliens from the planet Emerald send superhero Starman to protect Earth from invasion by an evil alien race called the Spherions. When Starman arrives on Earth, he discovers a ... See full summary »
Directors: Koreyoshi Akasaka, Teruo Ishii, Akira Mitsuwa | Stars: Ken Utsui, Sachihiro Ohsawa, Junko Ikeuchi, Minako Yamada
Votes: 607
4. Invaders from Space (1965 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 78 min | Sci-Fi
A bunch of pernicious salamander men from the planet Kulimon in the Moffit Galaxy plan on taking over Earth by unleashing a lethal plague on mankind. It's up to valiant superhero Starman ... See full summary »
Directors: Koreyoshi Akasaka, Teruo Ishii, Akira Mitsuwa | Stars: Ken Utsui, Minako Yamada, Junko Ikeuchi, Sachihiro Ohsawa
Votes: 393
5. Atomic Rulers (1965 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 83 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Super criminals are planning to infiltrate Earth with mass nuclear destruction! Only Starman can defend civilization by thwarting evil!
Directors: Koreyoshi Akasaka, Teruo Ishii, Akira Mitsuwa | Stars: Ken Utsui, Sachihiro Ohsawa, Junko Ikeuchi, Minako Yamada
Votes: 412
6. Kurohyo: Ryu ga Gotoku Shinsho (2010– )
30 min | Drama
Stars: Takumi Saitoh, Yûki Satô, Takuya Ishida, Shogen
Votes: 7
7. Ninja butai gekkô (1964– )
30 min | Action, Adventure, Mystery
Follows the exploits of Phantom Agent Fantar and his ninja-skilled elite team. Based in Tokyo, the Phantom Agents were skilled in counter terrorism, espionage, all forms of weapons and ... See full summary »
Stars: Jo Mizuki, Akira Yamaguchi, Franz Gruber, Michiko Hamamura
Votes: 42
8. Lupin the Third: Strange Psychokinetic Strategy (1974)
82 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Though his father's partner Jigen wants him to take charge of the Lupin Empire and the obsessed detective Zenigata wants him behind bars, Lupin III is only concerned about being with the beautiful (and treacherous) lady thief Fujiko.
Director: Takashi Tsuboshima | Stars: Yûki Meguro, Eiko Ezaki, Maria Anzai, Shirô Itô
Votes: 183
9. Evil Brain from Outer Space (1966 TV Movie)
78 min | Action, Sci-Fi
A monstrous evil brain from outer space leads his minions on a crusade to conquer the universe, and unleashes hideous monsters on Earth that spread deadly diseases.
Directors: Koreyoshi Akasaka, Teruo Ishii, Akira Mitsuwa | Stars: Ken Utsui, Junko Ikeuchi, Minoru Takada, Makoto Abe
Votes: 833
10. Haunted Cave (1959)
Not Rated | 82 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
Yumi Aoyama is now a girl diver in shallow waters to cut oysters and other shellfish delicacies, and eventually pearls, from the shallow underwater rocks, like so many poor girls of her ... See full summary »
Director: Morihei Magatani | Stars: Yôko Mihara, Bunta Sugawara, Reiko Seto, Kuniko Yamamura
Votes: 23
11. Ginza Cosmetics (1951)
87 min | Drama
A few days in the life of a quiet geisha, single mother of a young, smart boy, in the lively Tokyo quarter of Ginza. A woman devoted to other people's needs, she will end by taking part ... See full summary »
Director: Mikio Naruse | Stars: Kinuyo Tanaka, Ranko Hanai, Yûji Hori, Kyôko Kagawa
Votes: 344
12. The Woman Vampire (1959)
78 min | Horror
A woman who's been missing for twenty years suddenly turns up alive, and looking not a day older than when she vanished. When her daughter sees a painting of a woman identical to her mother... See full summary »
Director: Nobuo Nakagawa | Stars: Shigeru Amachi, Takashi Wada, Junko Ikeuchi, Yôko Mihara
Votes: 195
13. Female Slave Ship (1960)
83 min | Action, Adventure, War
Towards the end of World War Two Lt. Sugawa is flying to Tokyo with top secret blueprints when his plane is shot out of the sky over the Pacific Seas. He is plucked from the ocean onto a ... See full summary »
Director: Yoshiki Onoda | Stars: Bunta Sugawara, Tetsurô Tanba, Yôko Mihara, Utako Mitsuya
Votes: 31
14. Black Breasts (1960)
78 min | Crime
Director: Michiyoshi Doi | Stars: Kinuko Obata, Junko Ikeuchi, Bunta Sugawara, Keiji Takamiya
Votes: 8
15. Tattoo (1982)
107 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
An ardent culture-vulture youth, previously charged for the murder of a woman when he was young, plans to hold hostage a local bank.
Director: Banmei Takahashi | Stars: Ryûdô Uzaki, Keiko Takahashi, Misako Watanabe, Kazuko Aoki
Votes: 65
16. Nyotai sanbashi (1958)
73 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Another world of illicit pleasures lies beneath the glittering neon surface of Tokyo.
Director: Teruo Ishii | Stars: Ken Utsui, Akemi Tsukushi, Yôko Mihara, Shigeru Ogura
Votes: 57
17. Teresa Ten monogatari: Watashi no ie wa yama no mukou (2007 TV Movie)
Drama
May 8, 1995, Chiang Mai, Thailand, generation of queen Teresa Teng (Kimura Jia is acted the role of) asthma hair, rescue invalid died. News spread to Taiwan home, Japanese record companies ... See full synopsis »
18. Guyferd (1996– )
30 min
A young man named Kazama Gou on his search for his lost brother gets kidnapped by the crime syndicate, Crown who turn him into a genetically modified cyborg known as a Guyborg. He runs away... See full summary »
Stars: Hiroyuki Kawai, Shôichirô Akaboshi, Asuka Shimizu, Toshio Tomogane
Votes: 8
19. Onna shinju-ô no fukushû (1956)
89 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A story of sex and survival, Toshio Shimura's REVENGE OF THE PEARL QUEEN stars voluptuous Michiko Maeda as an office worker and future pearl diver trapped on a tropical beach with five lustful male castaways.
Director: Toshio Shimura | Stars: Susumu Fujita, Michiko Maeda, Ken Utsui, Shigeru Amachi
Votes: 20
20. Shikakenin Fujieda Baian (1990– )
Drama
"Shikakenin", they have a double life and live inconspicuously in Edo. Baian Fujieda is an acupuncturist. Hikojirou is craftsman who makes toothpicks. They believe that fixer said "Kill the... See full summary »
Star: Ken Watanabe
Votes: 14
21. Dangerous Stories (1989)
105 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Three stories with horror and science fiction elements.
Directors: Kazuyuki Izutsu, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Banmei Takahashi | Stars: Yoriko Dôguchi, Takashi Ebata, Renji Ishibashi, Yutaka Iwasaki
Votes: 15
22. The Mother Tree (1958)
48 min | Horror
After apprenticing himself to a painter, a man decides that the painter's knowledge isn't enough--he wants his wife too. But as it turns out, the painter's death doesn't keep him from exacting revenge.
Director: Gorô Kadono | Stars: Akira Nakamura, Katsuko Wakasugi, Asao Matsumoto, Hiroshi Ayukawa
Votes: 77
23. Joôbachi (1958)
76 min | Crime
This undoubtedly became a series after the fact, since Kobo returns in a similar role in the next installment. These were probably the closest Shintoho came to 'real' yakuza films that were more in the mid-1960s Toei/Nikkatsu mold.
Director: Tetsu Taguchi | Stars: Naoko Kubo, Shôji Nakayama, Shigeru Amachi, Yôko Mihara
24. Joôbachi to daigaku no ryû (1960)
81 min | Crime, Drama
Director: Teruo Ishii | Stars: Yôko Mihara, Kanjûrô Arashi, Teruo Yoshida, Shigeru Amachi
Votes: 17
25. Onna gankutsu-ô (1960)
82 min | Crime
Director: Yoshiki Onoda | Stars: Yôko Mihara, Teruo Yoshida, Masayo Banri, Shuntarô Emi
Votes: 7
26. Ghost of the Girl Diver (1960)
56 min | Horror
Director: Gorô Kadono | Stars: Jûzaburô Akechi, Katsuko Wakasugi, Kyôko Yashiro, Masayo Banri
Votes: 17
27. Joyû Reiko Honô no yôni (2013 TV Movie)
100 min | Biography
Director: Toshiyuki Mizutani | Stars: Rina Uchiyama, Munehisa Fujita, Ikkô Furuya, Naomi Kawashima
28. The Bloody Sword of the 99th Virgin (1959)
82 min | Drama, Horror
The mountain people's traditional rituals are threatened by police investigating missing hikers.
Director: Morihei Magatani | Stars: Bunta Sugawara, Seiji Hara, Kazuo Harada, Rei Ishikawa
Votes: 24
29. Onna shikeishû no datsugoku (1960)
78 min | Crime
Rich industrialist Imai wishes to marry his elder daughter Kyoko off to Aoki, who he sees as the ideal candidate to take over his business. Kyoko, however, prefers the rugged but poor Soichi to Aoki's goody-two-shoes.
Director: Nobuo Nakagawa | Stars: Miyuki Takakura, Tatsuo Terashima, Yôichi Numata, Takashi Wada
Votes: 89
30. Janken Ken chan (1969–1970)
30 min | Comedy
Stars: Ken Miyawaki, Gen Funabashi, Kumiko Kishi, Chiharu Kuri
31. Seven Mysteries (1957)
55 min | Horror
A samurai rescues a mischievous tanuki from hunters and sets it free. When the samurai's wastrel son hatches a plot to kill his father for his fortune, the magical tanuki is determined to protect its rescuer.
Director: Gorô Kadono | Stars: Jûzaburô Akechi, Shigeru Amachi, Hiroshi Hayashi, Uraji Matsuura
Votes: 90
32. Nyotai uzumaki-shima (1960)
76 min | Crime
Director: Teruo Ishii | Stars: Yôko Mihara, Teruo Yoshida, Shigeru Amachi, Masayo Banri
Votes: 15
34. Nureta kokoro: Rezubian satsujin jiken (1981 TV Movie)
92 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Director: Masaharu Segawa | Stars: Kumiko Ôba, Yôsuke Tagawa, Yasuko Ichinose, Sachiko Hidari
35. Mado no naka no satsujin (1983 TV Movie)
100 min | Crime, Mystery
Director: Yoshio Inoue | Stars: Ayumi Ishida, Akira Nakao, Hiroshi Sekiguchi, Toshie Takada
36. Mofuku no houmonsha (1971– )
60 min | Drama, Thriller
Stars: Mitsuko Oka, Reiko Dan, Hiroshi Sekiguchi, Michiko Ôtsuka
37. Ao no umi: Long Summer (2014– )
30 min | Drama
Odate Mai is the daughter of the president of a construction company in Tokyo. When she was 17 years old, she discovered that her mother was actually not her real mother, and by chance she ... See full summary »
Stars: Megumi Okina, Harumi Edo, Atsuhiro Inukai, Itsuji Itao
38. Nikutai joyû-goroshi: Go-nin no hanzaisha (1957)
74 min | Crime
Director: Teruo Ishii | Stars: Ken Utsui, Utako Mitsuya, Shigeru Amachi, Masami Akimoto
Votes: 7
39. Hôigaku kyôshitsu no jiken file (1992– )
54 min | Mystery
Stars: Yûko Natori, Shin Takuma, Megumi Igarashi, Kazuma Sano
40. Rinchi (1949)
98 min | Crime, Drama
Director: Nobuo Nakagawa | Stars: Kanjûrô Arashi, Ranko Hanai, Yoshiko Kuga, Ryô Ikebe
Votes: 21
41. Kokubetsu (2001 TV Movie)
104 min | Drama
Director: Nobuhiko Ôbayashi | Stars: Tôru Minegishi, Misa Shimizu, Manae Katsuno, Keiju Kobayashi
Votes: 8
42. Mottomo tôi ginga (2013– )
Drama
Stars: Tomokazu Miura, Hideaki Itô, Yû Aoi, Jun Fubuki
Votes: 7
43. Ken chan Toko chan (1970–1971)
30 min | Comedy
Stars: Ken Miyawaki, Mayumi Sakuma, Kuniko Ashihara, Dennis Falt
44. Ren'ai zubari kôza - Dai-san-wa: Kôshoku (1961)
Short, Comedy, Romance
Director: Teruo Ishii | Stars: Yôko Mihara, Ryûji Oki, Hiroshi Asami, Junko Uozumi
45. Pan ya no Ken chan (1977– )
30 min | Comedy
Stars: Hiroya Oka, Yukari Saitô, Ichirô Arishima, Mie Endô
46. Chiisana koi no monogatari (1972– )
Stars: Yuki Okazaki, Toshimi Kasai, Masaya Oki, Makoto Akatsuka
47. Three Moons (2015 TV Movie)
84 min | Drama
Director: Masahito Horiba | Stars: Tomoyo Harada, Shôsuke Tanihara, Kaoru Yachigusa, Gaku Yamamoto
48. Sports Kenchan (1978– )
30 min | Family
Stars: Hiroya Oka, Yukari Saitô, Kanako Arima, Ichirô Arishima
49. Kôiki keisatsu 3 (2012 TV Movie)
111 min | Mystery
Director: Kazuyoshi Yoshikawa | Stars: Katsunori Takahashi, Shizuyo Yamasaki, Ren Ôsugi, Natsumi Ogawa
50. The Last Restaurant (2016– )
29 min | Comedy
Stars: Seiichi Tanabe, Mayuko Fukuda, Haruka Kinami, Kôsuke Suzuki