Jun Tazaki Movies

Makino Masahiro film starring Okada Mariko

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...

Melodrama by Kiyoshi Saeki

Based on a serialized newspaper novel by Taijiro Tamura. People living in the darkness of the city, Tachikawa Maki publishes the Ginza Minpo, a small...

Home drama about tin craftsmen and their families in downtown Tokyo. Though poor, they do not lose their cheerfulness or give in to oppression.

A man is brutally murdered and his famed shamisen (a three-stringed musical instrument) called the "Yamabiko" stolen. Prince Kogenta swears to avenge...

A film by Kiyoshi Saeki

Ryusuke and Joe Oki escape from prison. Ryusuke was incarcerated for killing his younger brother Yasuhiko, who was a bouncer at the cabaret "Three...

The film won 1959 Blue Ribbon Awards for best actor Raizo Ichikawa and for best cinematography Kazuo Miyagawa. The film also won 1959 Kinema Junpo...

Japanese film.

1960 version of Lion Festival of Echigo

The protagonist descends from the mountains with a huge amount of panned gold dust. Upon learning of his wealth, all sorts of people, driven by greed...

Crime melodrama has young Kijima (Takarada) working at a successful cabaret, actually a front for drug dealing. Initially unaware of this, he falls...

Young Lord Gentaro (Otomo Ryutaro) takes a journey to Edo in search of his future wife. Easier said than done, evil forces lurk in Edo and Gentaro...

Japanese film about motorcycle racing.

The tragedy of the geiko girl Ume and the men who try to pursue her.

A touching drama about a love triangle between a young architect, Koroku, and two women, Ranko and Teruko. Ranko comes from a wealthy family and is...

A group of criminals whose diamond heist goes wrong retreat to a WWII era bunker where tensions begin to rise.