Joe Shishido Movies

Hisaya Morishige is Kyutaro, a nuclear physicist and his twin brother, Eiji, a con man. Eiji finally hits on his most elaborate scheme yet, to...

Prisoner Katsuji must fend for himself and his prison mates in the fierce battle involving a family feud.

Based on the manga of the same name. Originally published in the Japanese magazine Weekly Playboy. It follows Ippei Yasuda, son of a prominent...

A 1960 crime film

Bored Hatamoto film

Arriving in the town of Hakodate, a wandering musician, Shinji Taki, is soon recruited by the local gang as a hired hand. However, with the arrival...

Terrorists hijack an oil tanker and threaten to blow it up unless Japan meets their demands.

Takao, the owner of a coffee shop and brother-in-law to Anzai, the assistant manager of Hikari Bank, Osaka central branch, is caught in a scam by an...

26-year-old Shogo Washio sense danger from the expansion of Asian superpower nation Ouran. Shogo Washio teams up with Kenzo Nakagishi and...

Set in the downtown area in the heart of Tokyo, this film depicts the lives of poor but kind-hearted people.

It is the end of the Taisho era (1912-1926), and at the Hanazuki-tei theatre in Asakusa, the famous performance of storyteller Koiso Kikuji and...

A 1967 crime film

Motozo Imamura, a.k.a. Gen, grew up in an upper-class family, but he never went to school and spent his days playing around. One day, he walked into...

A Japanese sailor finds a colony of Eskimos in the Arctic and decides to stay with them. He comes off at a certain moment to look for his luck in the...

Shizuka, Eiichiro, and Mineko, their father and son, live modestly in a certain suburb, leading a dreary but happy life. Eiichiro is troubled by...

A fantastic adventure of a brother and sister flying a ghost ship, guided by a red crow, in search for an old captain. The ghost ship was designed by...

1962 Japanese movie

Zenigata Rai is tracking down Detective Okano, who disappeared in the "Forest of Golgoda" in Akasaka, Minato Ward. However, she also gets involved in...

Former students of the notorious Harenchi Gakuen college open a new school for dissident youths after their former school is ruined by disputes.