Manabu Morita Movies

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Hiroshi Kawaguchi

1962 Japanese movie. Remake of Mori's 1942 original movie

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Cast: Shintarō Katsu

A young man named Kijima who works as a pianist in a small bar is surprised when one of the customers asks if he won't pretend to be the fiance of...

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Cast: Jirō Tamiya

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Kōjirō Hongō

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Cast: Jirō Tamiya

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Cast: Jirō Tamiya

Second movie in the yoidore hakase serie

Genre: Crime

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

Pu Zhe , the younger brother of the Emperor of Manchukuo, Pu Wen, marries Ryuko the daughter of a long-established aristocratic family - all in the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Kyō

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Cast: Shintarō Katsu

Magistrate Toyama no Kin-san is ordered to catch the phantom thief Nezumi Kozo, who is robbing daimyo and wealthy townspeople. Under the name of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Ogata

Ayako Wakao portrays a downtown rice ball shop girl whose heart is set on her business. Involved in her life are three young men—stage actor...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Akiko lives with her brother Toshio in suburban Tokyo working in different companies. One day, Toshio loses 500,000 yen which he was holding for his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Junko Kano

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Keizō Kawasaki

Order of Yakuza

Genre: Crime

Cast: Jirō Tamiya

A mysterious thief called "Yami no Kiba" (Fang of Darkness), who sneaks into the residences of the shogunate one after another and steals the...

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Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

Ichibei teams up with Chief Jindayo of the Goomune (Japan’s gypsies’) in order to steal the shogunate’s solid gold statue of Ieyasu...

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Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

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Cast: Shintarō Katsu

Adaptation of the Yukio Mishima novel.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Yasuda plays Omon, a woman using bamboo leaves as darts/blades to disable and kill her enemies.

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Cast: Michiyo Yasuda

Kosaka drops to death while ice climbing with his friend Uozu to see the sunrise on the New Year’s Day. The investigators try to find the cause...

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Cast: Kenji Sugawara

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Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

In a mountainous region of Japan, Lord Arakawa kidnaps the men of nearby villages to use as slave labor, producing gunpowder from his sulfur pits. A...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Hideki Ninomiya

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Jun Fujimaki

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Kōjirō Hongō

Genre: Action

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Yokomizo, a police officer in the traffic police force, is looking forward to watching his son Kazuhiko grow up. However, Kazuhiko rebels against his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

In the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier afflicted with tuberculosis is abandoned by his company and left to wander the Philippine island of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eiji Funakoshi

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Cast: Kōjirō Hongō

In this first film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, adapted from the manga by Kazuo Koike, we are told the story of the Lone Wolf and Cub's origin....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

Zatoichi's trek through 88 temples to atone for his violent past is interrupted as he stumbles into a village terrorized by a violent yakuza boss.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

Bunta Sugawara is Miyoshi, a low-level assassin of the Yamamori gang who is sent to jail after a bungled hit. While in stir, family member Aoki...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

In the mountain regions of Hida, the dreams of a peasant named Kyonosuke, who longed to be a samurai, come true when he becomes one of three doubles,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Fifth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.

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Cast: Kyōko Enami

In late 1940 the Japanese were anxious to conclude peace in China and to that end sent Colonel Hidaka to inaugurate negotiations. He was mysteriously...

Genre: Action

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Nakano Institution is the so-called ‘Spy School’ where many young men are trained to be excellent spies. They erase their names,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Isazo is a traveling gambler and living legend in the world of yakuza, known for his swordsmanship and bravery, his impeccable manners, and his...

Genre: Action

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

The further adventures of Takeshi Nanjo, the Young Boss.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Blind swordsman Zatoichi, jailed briefly, is implored by another prisoner to aid him in proving his innocence of a crime for which he is sentenced to...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

A young intellectual conscientious objector is forced to serve with the Japanese army in Manchuria. He joins with a dim-witted former gangster in an...

Genre: Action

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

Fifth film in the series. When Kyoshiro, in a moment of weakness, saves the life of a woman being attacked on the road, he quickly finds himself...

Genre: Action

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Set up to be the patsy by a rival gang, Furuta Makoto attacks the yakuza boss he thinks is responsible for his father’s murder. He then learns...

Genre: Action

Cast: Hiroki Matsukata

A crime boss gets out of prison and tries to find who from his organization betrayed him.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

Sentaro is been severely beaten for his defiance of the government and the high taxes during a time of famine. He is befriended by Kada Gentaro, a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

The Silk Hat Boss becomes involved in a car imports business during his trip to Atami.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

As a child, Okin the one-armed one-eyed swordswoman was disfigured by Lord Daizen-dayu, who was after her family's most treasured possession, the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Michiyo Yasuda

When a local gambling house kidnaps some peasants because they failed to pay their debts, a rival gambling house pays their debts and sets them free.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

A man operates a small real estate business near Osaka. A man from Tokyo asks for help in buying a large tract of land in order, he says, to build an...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jirō Tamiya

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Cast: Shintarō Katsu

It’s cross and double-cross in these further adventures of Ryuzen, the wayward priest played by Katsu Shintaro as he tries to help a woman who...

Genre: Action

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

The story of Shinsuke, a young man who lives through a stormy life as a poverty-stricken coal miner. Ranging from Shinsuke's infanthood to his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

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Cast: Shintarō Katsu

From Hokkaido to Tokyo, hunting dog Goro embarks on a long and grueling journey to reach home. With the loss of his master who held a secret to a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

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

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Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

Two car manufacturers spy on each other to try to find out details and prices of a new sports car each is about to launch.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Jirō Tamiya

A horse-riding samurai fights villains.

Genre: Action

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

When a young woman is named as the prime suspect in a murder, her girlfriend and her girlfriend's boyfriend set out to prove her innocence. Their...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

In the sixth and final film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, the final conflict between Ogami Itto and the Yagyu clan is carried out.

Genre: Action

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

In the fifth film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Ogami Itto is challenged by five warriors, each has one fifth of Ogami's assassin fee and one...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

In the fourth film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Ogami Itto is hired to kill a tattooed female assassin and battles Retsudo, head of the Yagyu...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

The adventures of a blind, gambling masseur and master swordsman. Zatoichi targets a yakuza-controlled village, because war with a neighbouring...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tomokazu Miura

In eighth century China, the Emperor is grieving over the death of his wife. The Yang family wants to provide the Emperor with a consort so that they...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Machiko Kyō

The shogun's vassal Harima Aoyama and a chamber maid are in love with each other, but they cannot be together due to a difference of their status....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

1957 drama from director Kôzaburô Yoshimura

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroshi Kawaguchi

Genre: Crime

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Terry Sugury is hired to recover one of two tapes containing a formula for making heroin for a price of 200 dollars a pound. But he gets double...

Genre: Action

Cast: Sonny Chiba

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Cast: Shintarō Katsu

On his release from prison a young yakuza, along with his brother, decides to turn his back on criminal life instead of taking over the position of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yukio Mishima

A youth drama set in a Japanese university which is home to a group of active, leftist students.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Obscure Masumura film shot in 1961.

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Cast: Hiroshi Kawaguchi

One of many adaptations of "Onna no isshō", this time by Yasuzo Masumura as a starring vehicle for famed actress Machiko Kyo.

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Cast: Machiko Kyō

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kenji Sugawara

Genre: Action

Cast: Jirō Tamiya

A drama about the sex industry.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Jirō Tamiya

Genre: Action

Cast: Jirō Tamiya

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Genre: Drama

Cast: Aiko Mimasu

Detective Goto, who had sniffed out drugs as the culprit behind the murder of an elderly woman, was run over and killed while pursuing the culprit....

Genre: Action

Cast: Jun Fujimaki