Jō Shishido Movies

An alien is pursued as a traitor by his own race because he refuses to kill humans.

In this second film compiled from episodes of a Japanese TV serial, Captain Joe, reformed interstellar marauder Ken and the rest of the crew of the...

Prisoner Katsuji must fend for himself and his prison mates in the fierce battle involving a family feud.

In the nine part Wataridori series (1959-1962), Kobayashi played a wanderer on Japan’s back roads with most of the accoutrements of a Western...

In this fifth episode of the "Wataridori" series, Taki Shinji (Kobayashi Akira) drifts north to Hokkaido, where he helps protect an Ainu village from...

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

Meet Chika. She thinks she's been jinxed: she's going to be dumped on Christmas Eve. Enter Tomako, who likes reading and making pudding. Although...

An airplane loaded with 50 million yen for the reconstruction of Amami Oshima crashes en route from Kagoshima, Kyushu, but neither the money nor the...

A genius gambler and born hunter is a Buddhist monk by occupation.

Kuroda is a mob hitman who turns on his employers after being forced to execute his lover. Joining forces with his similarly wronged brothers,...

Emerging from a stint in prison, yakuza lieutenant Sumukawa discovers that his gang has disintegrated. An ambitious type, he quickly hooks up with...

The action of this historical drama takes place against the background of poverty and hunger in the city of Edo and depicts young people rebelling...

Japanese drama film.

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

A deep mist envelops the port city of Yokohama. The scent of crime is everywhere. As an executive member of a drug trafficking syndicate, Kano is...

1962 Japanese movie

A moodo/akushon yakuza picture with heavy emphasis on poignant seishun romance.

Mitsu works in a factory and has a crush on Tsutomu, a young man she met on the Tokyo streets. One day the two go out, and after some deception,...

Ryu (Akira Kobayashi) sets foot on the Yokohama port with a suitcase filled with 300 thousand dollars. He was sent by a jewelry company in Hong Kong...