Eimei Esumi
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1935-10-05
Locus Natus: Shimane Prefecture, Japan
Et ut: Hideaki Ezumi, Eimei Ezumi, Hideaki Esumi, Takeshi Esumi, Hide Esumi
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
A fictional account of the life of Japanese author Yukio Mishima, combining dramatizations of three of his novels and a depiction of the events of...
release : 1985.09.20popularis : 19.991
Confessions of a Teenage Mother
After having dropped out of school and given birth at age 16, Mako has little choice but to move in with the baby's deadbeat father. Struggling to...
release : 1977.07.09popularis : 2.786
Swap Shinsatsushitsu: Mitsu-shibuki
A sexually frustrated young wife is determined to find a way to excite her impotent husband. She goes to a sex clinic for help and has various erotic...
release : 1986.02.22popularis : 3.491
A Colt Is My Passport
A gang lord hires Kamimura, a hit man, to take out a rival boss who's gotten greedy.
release : 1967.02.04popularis : 8.051
Tokyo Drifter
After yakuza boss Kurata dissolves his own criminal empire, a rival kingpin offers a position to Kurata's top operative, Tetsuya "Phoenix Tetsu"...
release : 1966.04.10popularis : 10.64
Story of a Prostitute
Volunteering as a "comfort woman" on the Manchurian front, where she is expected to service hundreds of soldiers, Harumi is commandeered by the...
release : 1965.02.27popularis : 7.025
A Woman Called Sada Abe
The young and beautiful Sada Abe, the daughter of a rich merchant, is banished for losing her virginity after being raped by a college student. Sada...
release : 1975.02.08popularis : 6.679
The Man Who Stole the Sun
A high school science teacher is the butt of all his students' jokes, until their bus is hijacked on a school trip. But something more sinister lurks...
release : 1979.10.06popularis : 5.794
Gold Finger: Mô ichido okumade
A female private investigator is asked to find a missing young wife and uncovers a man who preys on lonely ladies.
release : 1983.03.11popularis : 1.5
The World of Geisha
The world is in turmoil with the October Revolution of 1917, riots over the inflationary price of rice, and the military expedition to Siberia in...
release : 1973.11.03popularis : 4.166
Bishimai: Aegu
Various family members scheme to inherit their father’s business for themselves… by any means.
release : 1987.01.24popularis : 2.333
Kill or get killed!
When Yakuza decides to take avenge his brother, the war shall begin.
release : 1966.09.07popularis : 5.94
The Flower and the Angry Waves
A young yakuza in love with the girl who's to marry his clan oyabun, kidnaps the girl before fleeing with her. In Tokyo, he hides under the identity...
release : 1964.02.08popularis : 2.262
Red Light District: Gonna Get Out
It's the evening before the day all brothels must be shut-down, according to the new law, in 1958. At the Kofukuya's (literally, the house that sells...
release : 1974.09.21popularis : 5.089
Mount Hakkoda
Two infantry regiments of the Imperial Japanese Army—210 men overall—tackled Mt. Hakkoda in the winter of 1902 to prepare for war with...
release : 1977.06.04popularis : 4.126
Stray Dog
When his pistol is stolen, police detective Murakami is humiliated, especially when the gun is later implicated in a crime. Working with his...
release : 1973.09.29popularis : 5.697
KochiKame: The Movie
Officer Ryotsu is ordered to team up with FBI agent Lisa Hoshino to find a terrorist who is currently in Tokyo. For an unknown reason, only buildings...
release : 1999.12.23popularis : 2.991
Afternoon Affair: Married Nurse Rumor
A nurse is raped in a doctor's office. The caresses of the perpetrator keep coming to her mind after the assault. She will start a search for the...
release : 1974.03.13popularis : 2.915
The World of Geisha 2 – The Precocious Lad
Shotaro, a young man who was kidnapped as a baby by a prostitute, lives and entertains in a seaside brothel. He often has to spend the night in the...
release : 1974.02.16popularis : 2.305
My Way
Based on a true story, an elderly woman resiliently spends nine months attempting to retrieve her husband's dead body, fighting government...
release : 1974.09.07popularis : 2.785
Midsummer Night's Affair: Bliss
A wife works two jobs to support her husband who is cheating on her.
release : 1976.08.11popularis : 1.245
You Can Succeed, Too
A group of friends try to find success in corporate Japan.
release : 1964.05.30popularis : 1.04
Hana to ryu
Hana to ryu: Toshio Masuda directed movie
release : 1962.12.26popularis : 1.404
Owl
A mother and daughter are stranded in small, isolated cabin, and are starving to death. In order to survive, they plan to entice men that happen to...
release : 2003.02.07popularis : 7.207
Apartment Wife: Violated Skin
A nightmare that suddenly attacks an ordinary housewife: rape. However, the real nightmare was the threat that began because the information was...
release : 1977.11.26popularis : 1.777
Delinquent Girl: Alley Cat In Heat
A naive country girl runs away to the city and gets picked up by a kindly well dressed man. She soon finds that life can be cruel.
release : 1973.05.31popularis : 2.927
A Forest with No Name
Private detective Mike takes on an assignment to return a girl, who is set to marry into a prestigious family, from a mysterious commune in the...
release : 2003.03.19popularis : 1.541
Sexy doll: Abe Sada sansei
The film depicts the daughter of a concubine of a political and business mastermind who is involved in a corruption scandal, and a woman who controls...
release : 1983.01.21popularis : 1.555
Tanshin funin: Niizuma no himitsu
A lonely wife has a love affair with the newly widowed neighbor while her husband is away on business.
release : 1980.07.19popularis : 1.619
Youth of the Beast
When a mysterious stranger muscles into two rival yakuza gangs, Tokyo's underworld explodes with violence.
release : 1963.04.21popularis : 5.798
Dodes'ka-den
This film follows the daily lives of a group of people barely scraping by in a slum on the outskirts of Tokyo. Yet as desperate as their...
release : 1970.10.31popularis : 8.527
Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 5 - The Mystery of the Skull Wife
Fifth film of "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series.
release : 1971.08.01popularis : 2.263
Panic in High School
A parable about the inefficiency and anachronism of the Japanese educational system, which places an unusually large amount of importance on cramming...
release : 1978.08.19popularis : 2.839
Dark Room
A writer haunted by the death of his wife and threatened by the imagined infidelities of his lovers uses his affairs for the subjects of his novels.
release : 1983.09.17popularis : 4.359
Sexual Assault at a Hotel
The lovely Ryoko is attending a Japanese University on an exchange program. She’s pretty, vulnerable, shy and full of mysterious secrets....
release : 1977.06.04popularis : 2.425
Live Today, Die Tomorrow!
Michio Yamada, a recent school graduate, is sent to Tokyo to work as a fruit-packer in a department store as part of a government programme. He takes...
release : 1970.10.31popularis : 4.193
A Taxing Woman
Intrepid tax investigator Ryoko Itakura sets her sights on the mysterious and philandering Hideki Gondo, a suspected millionaire and proprietor of a...
release : 1987.02.07popularis : 3.991
Song of Dawn
Musical actress Noriko feels frustrated by the futility of her affair with a married man. Then she is offered a role in a new production that appears...
release : 1965.05.26popularis : 2.531
Outlaw: Gangster VIP 2
Goro (Tetsuya Watari) wants to put his dark past behind. He heads to Hirosaki City to offer his condolences to Yumeko and to reunite with Yukiko...
release : 1968.04.28popularis : 2.272
No More God, No More Love
Released after seven years in prison, an inveterate thug goes from strength to ruthless strength as he makes his way through a succession of dubious...
release : 1985.03.23popularis : 1.203
Yumeno Kyusaku's Girl Hell
In a religious school for girls the pure love between two students is torn apart by social and moral corruption.
release : 1977.08.20popularis : 6.972
Secret of One Summer
A daughter returns home to her ailing adopted father. A home that has a violent past, missing money and a tragic misunderstanding.
release : 1979.08.04popularis : 2.426
Hell in a Bottle
After the death of their father, a older brother and his younger sister return to their family home on a secluded island. They are accompanied by the...
release : 1986.07.26popularis : 2.933
Tokyo Blackout
Based on a science-fiction novel by Sakyo Komatsu. Tokyo is suddenly covered by a dome shaped electromagnetic cloud for an unknown reason and is...
release : 1987.01.16popularis : 3.198
Naked Rashomon
An ambitious businessman knocks up his mistress with fraternal twins. He keeps the boy but sends his bodyguard to dispose of the mother and the girl....
release : 1973.07.04popularis : 2.082
Nurse Diary: Beast Afternoon
A doctor develops a new scientific breakthrough in female psychotherapy with the discovery of the “Dream Ring,” a device that is inserted...
release : 1982.02.05popularis : 1.739
Image of a Bound Girl
A professor of erotic art sees his chance to practice what he teaches when by happenstance he meets a suicidal high school girl. Unsure at first how...
release : 1980.03.01popularis : 2.92
Cruelty: Black Rose Torture
In pre-war Japan, Yumiko, an aristocratic lady, accompanied by her maid, travels to Tokyo to visit her brother. Unaware that her brother has become...
release : 1975.04.26popularis : 3.553
Case of the Disjointed Murder
In the summer of 1947, various men and women gather at a mansion in the countryside at the invitation of Kazuma Utagawa. They are artists,...
release : 1977.03.14popularis : 3.571
Evening Primrose
The Taisho era was a time of turbulence in Japan. From new marks of modernity to full-blown riots, a sense of revolution filled the air. The Dam Dam...
release : 1974.12.28popularis : 3.422
The Resurrection of the Golden Wolf
A seemingly run-of-the-mill corporate salaryman leads a double life as a vicious criminal by night. In a delicious scheme of payback, he seeks to...
release : 1979.08.04popularis : 3.721
Kanto Wanderer
Handsome young Katsuta tries to follow the yakuza code, but even his boss doesn't believe in it. Diamond Fuyu is less ethical, and allows the idiotic...
release : 1963.11.23popularis : 1.463
Love and Death at Fuji Speedway
The movie was inspired by real life test driver Yukio Fukuzawa, who on 12 February 1969 lost control of his Toyota 7 at Fuji Speedway near...
release : 1972.12.27popularis : 2.157
Lost Sex
A well-respected drama teacher confesses to his housekeeper that the atomic bombing of Hiroshima has left him impotent. With the coming of spring,...
release : 1966.08.27popularis : 1.17
The Beast to Die
A policeman is murdered and his gun, stolen, used to commit the next crime. Detective Kashiwagi, who is leading the investigation, learns that the...
release : 1980.10.04popularis : 2.357
Zoom Up: Sexual Crime Report
The wife of a prominent businessman works as a late-night radio personality. One night on her way to the radio station, she is raped by a motorcycle...
release : 1981.10.09popularis : 4.077
Kuroneko
In the Sengoku period, a woman and her daughter are raped and murdered by soldiers during a time of civil war. Afterwards, a series of samurai...
release : 1968.02.24popularis : 8.753
Pleasure Campus: Secret Games
A high school girl has a very very bad day. She is disciplined for disrupting class and sent to clean lab equipment. Feeling horny she uses a phallic...
release : 1980.11.21popularis : 2.971
Fine, with Occasional Murders
Kanako returns from the USA to a troubled mother who witnessed a man leaving a murder scene and is consequently under persistent threat. For the time...
release : 1984.05.26popularis : 1.491
Erotic Liaisons
The story of a second rate detective asked to tail a mysterious woman who is cheating on her man.
release : 1978.07.08popularis : 0.955
Kagero-za
A 1920s playwright meets a beautiful woman who may be the ghost of his patron's deceased wife.
release : 1981.08.21popularis : 7.035
Professional Sex Performers: A Docu-Drama
The world of secret sex performers is shown through the lives of a husband and wife team. Their manager must contend with pesky customers and a...
release : 1974.01.26popularis : 1.589
Gate of Flesh
In the shady black markets and bombed-out hovels of post–World War II Tokyo, a tough band of prostitutes eke out a dog-eat-dog existence,...
release : 1964.05.31popularis : 4.484
The Gambling Monk
One summer day, the chief monk of the Hojuin Temple dies. Harumichi rushes back to town hearing about his brother's death and requests for a grand...
release : 1963.10.13popularis : 4.274
The Hidden Trail of the Beasts
A star tennis player takes revenge on the blackmailers out to ruin his athletic career.
release : 1981.09.12popularis : 1.08
Last Friends
Following the lives of three college rugby players drafted to serve in the military during WWII. Though they believe their service will help to...
release : 1995.06.03popularis : 2.697
Outlaw Cop
A bad cop is engaged in a violent chase to catch a yakuza boss. In his absence his wife runs away with another man, who turns out to be the very same...
release : 1976.02.04popularis : 1.899
Will to Live
It is based on the story of The Ballad of Narayama updated to the present day, with the substitution of putting a parent into an old people's home...
release : 1999.01.15popularis : 1.992
By Player
The film is a series of vignettes from Taiji Tonoyama's life and film clips, interspersed with a dialogue to camera by Nobuko Otowa, addressing the...
release : 2000.12.02popularis : 2.1
Detective Bureau 2-3: A Man Weak to Money and Women
A sequel to Detective Bureau 2-3: Go To Hell Bastards!
release : 1963.07.07popularis : 2.773
Kokoro no sanmyaku
A film dealing with the trials and tribulations of a primary school before and after the Pacific War, set in Fukashima Prefecture.
release : 1966.02.02popularis : 1.749
The Demon
When Sokichi stops providing his long-time lover Kikuyo enough money to pay for the care of their three young children, Kikuyo leaves the children...
release : 1978.10.07popularis : 6.343
Eureka
In rural Japan, the survivors of a tragedy converge and attempt to overcome their damaged selves, all while a serial killer is on the loose.
release : 2000.05.18popularis : 9.572