Movies: Japanese noir

  • 1966
    The Threat

    The Threat (1966)

    The Threat

    7.31966HD

    Two escaped criminals who kidnapped a baby break into the house of Misawa, a man who works in an advertising agency and lives quietly with his family. They will force him to collect the child's ransom for them....

    The Threat
  • 1961
    Fire Line

    Fire Line (1961)

    Fire Line

    3.71961HD

    Two young crooks who scam betters in the race track are employed by a yakuza gang called the Shigemori Syndicate to steal a shipment of handguns from a rival gang. Somewhere in the process they find themselves on the run from their own gang and one o...

    Fire Line
  • 1966
    Cash Calls Hell

    Cash Calls Hell (1966)

    Cash Calls Hell

    7.61966HD

    Before leaving prison, Oida uncomfortably enters into an agreement with his cell mate: in exchange for a half-share of 30,000,000 yen, he is to assassinate three strangers given to him on a list. However, upon meeting his first potential victim, Oida...

    Cash Calls Hell
  • 1958
    Rusty Knife

    Rusty Knife (1958)

    Rusty Knife

    5.91958HD

    Udaka is a new, post-war city where corruption has already taken hold. A persistent district attorney wants to arrest and convict Katsumata, a laughing, self-confident thug. The D.A. gets an anonymous letter about the suicide five years' before of a ...

    Rusty Knife
  • 1966
    Tokyo Drifter

    Tokyo Drifter (1966)

    Tokyo Drifter

    7.01966HD

    After yakuza boss Kurata dissolves his own criminal empire, a rival kingpin offers a position to Kurata's top operative, Tetsuya "Phoenix Tetsu" Hondo. When the fiercely loyal Tetsu declines, Otsuka taps unstoppable Tatsuzo the "Viper", a ruthless gu...

    Tokyo Drifter
  • 1970
    The Creature Called Man

    The Creature Called Man (1970)

    The Creature Called Man

    61970HD

    A top police-guard, charged with protecting a visiting politician and ruthless dictator, contends with an assassin set to kill the man....

    The Creature Called Man
  • 1967
    A Killer's Key

    A Killer's Key (1967)

    A Killer's Key

    6.71967HD

    Raizô Ichikawa reprises his role as the restaurant-cook-turned-contract-killer in this sequel to Kazuo Mori's stylish 1967 thriller A Certain Killer....

    A Killer's Key
  • 1962
    Stolen Pleasure

    Stolen Pleasure (1962)

    Stolen Pleasure

    6.81962HD

    Based on the original novel by Tokuda Shusei, adapted by frequent Masumura scribe Kaneto Shindo, this downbeat melodrama features a battle of women for the affections and commitment of the same man, a handsome car salesman. Masuko is the number one h...

    Stolen Pleasure
  • 1973
    Internal Sleuth

    Internal Sleuth (1973)

    Internal Sleuth

    7.51973HD

    When 150 guns are stolen from Iwakuni base and two police officers are shot dead, a detective criminal tries to find out the truth....

    Internal Sleuth
  • 1960
    Black Line

    Black Line (1960)

    Black Line

    5.51960HD

    Freelance reporter “Scoop” Machida is hot on the trail of a prostitution ring called the Black Line, when he is framed for the murder of a young woman. Forced to clear his own name, the handsome journalist sinks deeper into the Black Line’s rotten s...

    Black Line
  • 1963
    Badge of the Night

    Badge of the Night (1963)

    Badge of the Night

    01963HD

    A noir action whodunit with Kobayashi his usual jaunty self as the smart aleck private eye whose missing person search soon becomes a murder case. Nightclub-managing, drug-dealing gangster Uchida is the prime suspect in the case until he commits suic...

    Badge of the Night
  • 1961
    Ten Dark Women

    Ten Dark Women (1961)

    Ten Dark Women

    5.91961HD

    Kaze is a philandering TV producer. His wife and nine of his mistresses conspire to kill him. However each woman would rather keep him alive, as long as she was the only woman in his life....

    Ten Dark Women
  • 1970
    The Shadow Within

    The Shadow Within (1970)

    The Shadow Within

    5.81970HD

    When a married man begins an affair with a woman from his past, he comes to suspect her young son intends to murder him....

    The Shadow Within
  • 1960
    The Warped Ones

    The Warped Ones (1960)

    The Warped Ones

    6.91960HD

    A juvenile delinquent gets out of the pen and immediately embarks on a rampage of untethered anger, most of it directed at the girlfriend of the journalist who helped send him up....

    The Warped Ones
  • 1961
    Greed in Broad Daylight

    Greed in Broad Daylight (1961)

    Greed in Broad Daylight

    71961HD

    After a successful robbery the culprits, from very different backgrounds, at once turn on each other....

    Greed in Broad Daylight
  • 1961
    Sexy Line

    Sexy Line (1961)

    Sexy Line

    4.51961HD

    It tells the story of a couple who fall into a trap set up by a sinister organization. One of them is a guy who is framed for the murder of his lover. The other is a woman pick-pocket who is entrapped by the organization's schemes involving their cri...

    Sexy Line
  • 1960
    Good-for-Nothing

    Good-for-Nothing (1960)

    Good-for-Nothing

    6.81960HD

    Yoshida's first feature follows the lives of young students against a background of jazz, emptiness and boredom. The plot is fairly simple: a "good-for-nothing" from a poor background falls in love with the young secretary of his rich friend's father...

    Good-for-Nothing
  • 1960
    Get 'em All

    Get 'em All (1960)

    Get 'em All

    61960HD

    Gang of robbers quarrel about the loot, but when one of them gets killed, his younger brother seeks them out to ice them one by one....

    Get 'em All
  • 1964
    Wolves, Pigs & Men

    Wolves, Pigs & Men (1964)

    Wolves, Pigs & Men

    8.11964HD

    Sabu and his pals hold a pauper's funeral for Sabu's mother. His brother Jiro arrives home, fresh out of jail, and Sabu pointedly states that Jiro is not invited. Jiro meanwhile is planning a big job - steal 40 million in cash and drugs, and he invit...

    Wolves, Pigs & Men
  • 1960
    The Lost Alibi

    The Lost Alibi (1960)

    The Lost Alibi

    5.21960HD

    Suspense drama about a married salaryman whose affair with one of his co-workers is compromised when, returning from a clandestine meeting with his lover, he runs into a neighbor who is later accused of murder. Questioned by police about the neighbor...

    The Lost Alibi