Movies: Eiji Minakata

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1962 Japanese movie...

A wave of terror is threatening to unseat Shogun Yoshimune. Police stations are erupting into flames, convicts escaping from prison, houses robbed and vandalized, streets teeming with panicked citizens. Is Ijyuin Tanomo, highly-placed official of Owa...

A young Japanese boy's life is changed when his sister returns to the small island, full of eccentric characters, where he lives....

1962 Japanese movie...

Jirocho and his henchmen befriend Ishimatsu, a wanderer in Mishima....

A comedy of a yakuza family that goes into show business....

While on his journey through the countryside of Japan, Shingo encounters many people whose lives have been affected by his actions. Though the many duels he fought were intended to bring justice to those who sought to do evil, he is faced with the kn...

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After a man racks up a huge debt, his wife and his father are “persuaded” to perform together in a sex show in order to pay it off....

A comedy about a free-spirited man Shosuke, whose life is turned upside down when he is ordered to serve the clan lord....

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Genjiro was a samurai in the past, but he became a Yakuza, a dandy with a tattoo of red peonies, he helps his younger brother who is caught up in a conflict with Hatamoto....

#19 in the series, following "Con Man Elimination."...

Three young yakuza, Fujitaro, Matsugoro and Kanjuro, travel the country fighting evil....

The main hero of this film is the spirit of the once very popular wooden statuette called Billiken. It's a small god with a pointed head, a fat belly and a characteristic smile. When the casket in which the statuette was found is broken, the spirit o...

A story about a tomboy, Otoshi, who is good at singing, dancing and fencing....