Movies: Isamu Kosugi

The story of a lovely "maiko" who bloomed in Gion. Three half-sisters play out a tale of tearful love between father and daughters against the backdrop of the city's dance festival....

After the enactment of the Anti-Prostitution Law, the red-light district in Shinjuku lost its allure. Even the gambling den of the Ryūzaki family was always deserted. Ryūzaki, the boss, declared his retirement in response to the changing times. It wa...

1962 Japanese movie...

Kotobuki-za is a story of the Naniwa-bushi singer Baichuken Tsurumaru....

1949 Japanese movie...

Sequel to "Island of Horrors" (獄門島, 1949)....

A young woman seduced by a rich man, takes revenge on him with the help of a young idealistic worker. Considered a lost film....

A prisoner escapes from prison to find the real criminal....

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An early example of the Japanese war film, closer to documentary realism than the kind of propaganda produced at the height of the Pacific War. "A company commander calls on five men. They are to reconnoiter, but on their way they are attacked. Only ...

University karate club member Kikuo is actually the son of a yakuza boss. However, he disliked his father's business and never spoke about his family at school. One day, his father, Tatsuzo, becomes the guardian of the Yamanaka-gumi....

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A samurai thief fights a gang of ghostly thieves using scorpions for treasure in the unexplored Shinano region, which is guarded by a descendant of the Heike clan....

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"Around the time he made such remarkably ambivalent war films as Mud and Soldiers and Five Scouts, Tasaka directed this 'home front' comedy-drama which is too bizarre to be serious propaganda. [The plot revolves around a public contribution campaign ...

Japanese war film....

Based on the comic by Yutaka Asou...

A detective drama that realistically shows the work of an experienced detective who, under cover, pursues the organizer of the arms trade route from Kobe....

A man rises in society by cheating, but the institutions in turn take their revenge....

1945 Japanese movie...