Movies: Shigeru Amachi

  • 1962
    The Tale of Zatoichi

    The Tale of Zatoichi (1962)

    The Tale of Zatoichi

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    The adventures of a blind, gambling masseur and master swordsman. Zatoichi targets a yakuza-controlled village, because war with a neighbouring town's smaller gang is brewing....

    The Tale of Zatoichi
  • 1960
    Jigoku

    Jigoku (1960)

    Jigoku

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    A group of sinners involved in interconnected tales of murder, revenge, deceit and adultery all meet at the Gates of Hell....

    Jigoku
  • 1965
    Sword of the Beast

    Sword of the Beast (1965)

    Sword of the Beast

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    Legendary swordplay filmmaker Hideo Gosha's Sword of the Beast chronicles the flight of the low-level swordsman Gennosuke, who kills one of his ministers as part of a reform plot. His former comrades then turn on him, and this betrayal so shakes his ...

    Sword of the Beast
  • 1966
    Zatoichi's Vengeance

    Zatoichi's Vengeance (1966)

    Zatoichi's Vengeance

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    Zatoichi comes upon a dying man who asks him to give a bag of money to "Taichi". Zatoichi has no idea who this is but when he comes upon a small town harassed by gangsters, he finds that "Taichi" was the man's young son. Along his travels he also met...

    Zatoichi's Vengeance
  • 1979
    Dead Angle

    Dead Angle (1979)

    Dead Angle

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    Elite college graduates commit perfect financial crimes though loopholes in the law during the 1950s....

    Dead Angle
  • 1959
    The Ghost of Yotsuya

    The Ghost of Yotsuya (1959)

    The Ghost of Yotsuya

    6.61959HD

    This horror tale relates the consequences of a Japanese legend which tells of a man who has to betray his wife in order to achieve power....

    The Ghost of Yotsuya
  • 1980
    Port Arthur

    Port Arthur (1980)

    Port Arthur

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    Depicts the bloody siege of the fortress of Port Arthur, one of the most strongly fortified positions in the world, during the Russo-Japanese War of (1904 - 1905). In the story dominated the character Lt Takeshi Kogyo (Teruhiko Aoi), teachers, and a ...

    Port Arthur
  • 1963
    Shinsengumi Chronicles

    Shinsengumi Chronicles (1963)

    Shinsengumi Chronicles

    6.51963HD

    As winds of change sweep Japan, an honest man joins the Shinsengumi out of admiration for its leader, and because he wants to live and die as a samurai. However, as his involvement grows, reality and idealism come into deadly conflict....

    Shinsengumi Chronicles
  • 1971
    Girl Boss Blues: Queen Bee's Counterattack

    Girl Boss Blues: Queen Bee's Counterattack (1971)

    Girl Boss Blues: Queen Bee's Counterattack

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    In the 1970s, the Japanese youth emancipation also found its way into the yakuza (crime) societies. A Girl Boss may have a choice between bikes, and between boyfriends. But she has to defend her choices the hard way, as her triumph and power over the...

    Girl Boss Blues: Queen Bee's Counterattack
  • 1959
    The Pacific War and the International Military Tribunal

    The Pacific War and the International Military Tribunal (1959)

    The Pacific War and the International Military Tribunal

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    In 1941, overpopulated Japan faces an economic boycott and its armed forces push further to the south. And despite negotiations between Japan and the U. S. A. war is declared with the attack on Pearl Harbour. Victories follow for Japan on land and se...

    The Pacific War and the International Military Tribunal
  • 1955
    Twilight Saloon

    Twilight Saloon (1955)

    Twilight Saloon

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    Set in a tavern, director Tomu Uchida depicts the joys and sorrows of the people who gather there in an experimental style, weaving in a variety of music in this ambitious ensemble drama....

    Twilight Saloon
  • 1968
    Blackmail Is My Life

    Blackmail Is My Life (1968)

    Blackmail Is My Life

    6.41968HD

    Though he has come from a rough background on the streets, Muraki quickly rises through the ranks by means of his well-honed blackmailing instincts. Desperate to keep rolling with his freewheeling lifestyle, Muraki sees his luck begin to crumble when...

    Blackmail Is My Life
  • 1953
    Mole Alley

    Mole Alley (1953)

    Mole Alley

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    33-year-old poor writer Ogata was able to endure his miserable life cheerfully thanks to Yoshie, a 19-year-old innocent young wife. After graduating from a girls' school in Hokuriku, she immediately moved to Tokyo to meet and marry Ogata. After neatl...

    Mole Alley
  • 1958
    Emperor & Empress Meiji and the Sino-Japanese War

    Emperor & Empress Meiji and the Sino-Japanese War (1958)

    Emperor & Empress Meiji and the Sino-Japanese War

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    Emperor & Empress Meiji and the Sino-Japanese War
  • 1984
    The Story of a Man Among Men

    The Story of a Man Among Men (1984)

    The Story of a Man Among Men

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    During the Showa era, a young yakuza survives war and injury and rises to become a clan boss with the help and respect of his sworn brothers....

    The Story of a Man Among Men
  • 1956
    Fearful Attack of the Flying Saucers

    Fearful Attack of the Flying Saucers (1956)

    Fearful Attack of the Flying Saucers

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    A 1956 alien invasion tokusatsu film directed by Shinichi Sekizawa, the screenwriter noted for his immense contributions to Toho's Godzilla series by providing the screenplays/stories for the majority of the original Showa films....

    Fearful Attack of the Flying Saucers
  • 1972
    Modern Lady Gambler

    Modern Lady Gambler (1972)

    Modern Lady Gambler

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    Fujiko wanders aimlessly through the country, seeking vengence on the man she onced loved, who betrayed her, and destroying her family and her life. When she discovers that man had already died, she loses her will to live. But in a twist of fate, she...

    Modern Lady Gambler
  • 1962
    The Lightning Sword

    The Lightning Sword (1962)

    The Lightning Sword

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    Shinjiro is a rambler, a single sword carrying lone wolf with only his fighting skills to protect him. He doesn’t know where his road leads, only that he must find his lost sister, and the ronin who stole her away. The ronin that Shinjiro has sworn t...

    The Lightning Sword
  • 1967
    Classmates

    Classmates (1967)

    Classmates

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    A story of young students trained to become Kamikaze pilots in World War II....

    Classmates
  • 1965
    The Boss

    The Boss (1965)

    The Boss

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    Teruo Ishii portrays the bitter conflict over the right to develop land in a gripping and humorous way. Nakagami, the head of the Kanto Joseikai, is ordered to acquire the rights to work to level the reclaimed land and prevent the Doshikai from expan...

    The Boss