Yōko Minamida Movies

A tense action game that skillfully intertwines the human love between a criminal, his sister and his lover, and the desperate pursuit of a detective...

A beautiful and healthy young girl growing up in poverty overcomes hardships and grows into a woman in this deeply moving literary epic.

A film about the confrontation between two yakuza groups in the brutal Miike prison, which contained 1,500 inmates. The second film in the series...

A Girl isn't Allowed to Love is a 1955 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.

The 3rd film of the famous "Wataridori" (The Rambler) series from Nikkatsu. The young rambler, Shinji Taki (Akira Kobayashi), with his guitar arrives...

An unofficial sequel to Million Dollar Match (1961) which also starred Koji Wada as a young energetic boxer. This story deals more with betting...

Might Guy Akira's unique action drama depicts the bizarre fate of a young doctor who vows to avenge his girlfriend, who was shot by a yakuza on a...

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A 1970 juvenile delinquent drama.

Story of an ex-con trying to go straight, but of course the old ways die hard.

A marine security officer stranded on the ocean in a small boat is rescued by a crew of buccaneers.

1962 Japanese movie

Film directed by Seiji Hisamatsu and starring Wakao Ayako

Yakuza drama with Meiko Kaji directed by Masahiro Makino

Joe Shishido is an ambitious bike racetrack tout who becomes inadvertently involved in a triangle with a vulnerable prostitute (Izumi Ashikawa) and...

A sophisticated comedy about love games between men and women that arise from an intentionally dropped train ticket.

Film directed by Shima Koji and starring Wakao Ayako

Teenage cousins Masao and Tamiko fall in love when she comes to his riverside brewery house to take care of his sickly mother. Family objections...