Jō Shishido Movies

An anthology that embodies the essence of Toei action films with a stylish flair, this movie follows an aging hitman (Jō Shishido) on a quest to...

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...

Four years ago, Teppei Hondo killed two people from the Shinwa group for the murder of his brother. After serving a 3-year prison sentence, he...

A 1960 crime film

A reporter is framed for murder while investigating organized crime. Upon being released from prison the plan for his revenge unravels.

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

Students against teachers in the wildest kiss-stealing, petting-orgy ever.

Two yakuza, one of whom frequently reflects on an uncomfortable past taking advantage of Korean women, meet a stowaway on Japanese soil from across...

Set in Kyushu during the early Showa period, the son of a boss who is killed after a greedy boss takes over his territory, takes over and takes...

1959 Japanese movie

Fourth installment of Nikkatsu's "Drifter" series, with Kobayashi Akira.

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...

A trio of high school boys get summer jobs at a seaside resort. Soon, however, they learn that the woman who runs it is in financial trouble. The...

A group of pirates sail the treacherous Pacific ocean in search for wealth.

A Tokyo newspaper reporter goes after the Japanese king of cocaine trafficking but he's tricked by a woman who works for the gangster and gets framed...

Based on the comic book series of the same name by Yûsuke Aoyagi.

A film from Nikkatsu's "moodo akushon" (mood/action) subgenre.

Plans to build a touristic hot spring on the island of Izu Oshima run afoul of the Kobe yakuza group, which intends to use the island as a relay base...

The young rambler, Shinji Taki, with his guitar arrives a hot spa town at the foot of Mount Aizu Bandai. Of course he solves the problems in the town...