Jirō Tamiya

The White Tower

The story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors at Naniwa Univ...

Hikarugake

The drama depicts the fateful meeting and falling in love between a man living in the glamorous world of the fa...

White Runway

Sugiyama was undergoing training in Moses Lake, USA, for the Boeing 747 model transition training. After passin...

The White Horizon

The series portrays veteran boxing world champion Ryuzo Nakane, played by Tamiya, as he fails to defend his tit...

The Family

Set in the post-World War II climate of the 1960s in Kobe, the movie explores the struggle for power within the...

Unknown Comrade

Tamiya Jiro's first starring role in a TV drama. The story is set in a fictional supermarket called "Planet" in...

Frost-Covered Trees

White Wilderness

The fifth installment of Tamiya Jiro's "White Series." Tamiya Jiro plays the editor-in-chief of a top weekly ma...

Giants and Toys

Nishi is an advertising executive for a caramel company that is planning to launch a new product, in fierce com...

Memoir of Japanese Assassinations

This anthology film consists of nine incidents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when assassins changed...

Rampaging Dog

Abare inu is a 1965 action-comedy film directed by Kazuo Mori. It is the fourth film in the series.

The Great White Tower

The story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors at Naniwa Univ...

Superexpress

A man operates a small real estate business near Osaka. A man from Tokyo asks for help in buying a large tract...

Main Line to Terror

Akiyama is an intern, disgusted with the noise pollution caused by the bullet trains and the heart attacks that...

Love and Greed

Namiko is married, but has an infatuation with Ishizuka who runs a nightclub. The businessman is also planning...

Miyamoto Musashi

In Part I we see the young would-be swordsman setting out to achieve greatness in war, achieving nothing becaus...

The Blue Sky Maiden

Yuko is sent to the coastal regions to be raised away from the rest of her sophisticated family where she finds...

White Secret

Munekata Yuko remembered the face of Mimura Kyosuke, a doctor who killed her mother by mistake in the course of...

Kyukei no Koya

A film adaptation of Seicho Matsumoto's novel of the same title, starring Muga Takewaki and Yoko Shimada. Set i...

The Crowded Train

Tamio Moroi, a young university graduate, works at a large brewery where he is taught to do nothing but look bu...

The Time of Reckoning

"The Time of Reckoning" transforms a screwball-comedy plot into a sober study of a successful businessman with...

The Spy

Based on true events surrounding a Korean student who had entered Japan unlawfully and escaped illegal alien in...

Cobra 2

A Datsun driving, face-punching moody super-cop Cobra Cumera battles homicidal mobsters intent on causing mayhe...

The Invisible Man vs. The Human Fly

Police investigate a series of mysterious murders where the only clue is a strange buzzing noise at the scene o...

Chase That Man

The story of the desperate struggle between the police and a large crime syndicate.

Night Butterflies

A traditional bar mistress in Kyoto clashes with her Tokyo rival.

Nagare no Fu Part I: Disturbance, Part II: Dawn

An epic drama depicting the lineage of a military family that lived for three generations before, during, and a...

The Third Will

A story about a wealthy family and the greed and selfishness of three daughters and relatives, after the passin...

Oniisan to oneesan

A 1961 film directed by Yoshiyuki Kuroda.

Goodbye, Hello

Kazuko and Umeko have been friends since college. They are modern businesswomen who have many obligations in li...

A Design for Dying

Shikiko Oba is nimble with her fingers and teaches dressmaking and designing. Among her pupils are Rinko, Katsu...

The Corporation

Tadashi Iki returns to Japan from a Soviet gulag 11 years after being captured during the invasion of Manchuria...

Stolen Pleasure

High-end cabaret hostess Masuko discovers her long-term lover is actually married. Determined to secure her fut...

Daiei Studio is Bustling

A studio introduction version for Daiei Stars.

A Woman's Testament

The first story concerns an attractive young woman who works in a Tokyo nightclub. Her plan for a solid financi...

Gonin no totsugeki tai