Movies: Hiroshi Izumida

This time around, Sashichi is investigating a case of serial murders believed to be perpetrated by a giant bear....

Yōko is a young woman who is forced into prostitution by a yakuza gang. She repeatedly escapes from the gang, and is repeatedly captured, and repeatedly tortured at length....

Japanese spy film....

Japanese film about motorcycle racing....

On September 1, 1923, an unprecedented earthquake hit the Kanto region. The streets are filled with victims, and rumors are circulating around. The military seized the opportunity to round up and kill many socialists, anarchists, and Koreans, culmina...

Oiwa has been searching for the one who killed her father for a long time. She comes to Yedo and sees a man named Naosuke. The film is based on the kabuki classic: Toukaidou Yotsuya Kaidan (1826) written by Tsuruya Nanboku and is one of the most famo...

Set in the Edo Era, the film opens with a group of women being convicted of various crimes. The rest of the film is given to graphic depiction of the tortures the women endure as part of their sentences....

Melodrama by Kiyoshi Saeki...

Japanese mystery film directed by Michiyoshi Doi....

Japanese comedy film....

Japanese war film based on the true story of Yoshiko Kawashima, played by actress Miyuki Takakura in her film debut....

1961 Japanese film about the Shinsengumi....

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....

Yuko has a rendezvous with her old boyfriend who has just returned to Tokyo. Blackmailers with evidence of this transgression force Yuko to work as a call girl to pay them. Yuko becomes the client of a foreigner who is in the employ of her husband, a...

Shintoho crime film directed by Kyotaro Namiki....

Fictionalized retelling of the life of a Geisha poisoner....

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Pinku from 1968....

A love affair in which a gangster who makes married women cry risks his life....