Movies: Shinjirô Ehara

  • 1982
    Lady Karuizawa

    Lady Karuizawa (1982)

    Lady Karuizawa

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    A university student travels to a popular resort in the mountains for a summer job as a waiter and becomes romantically involved with an older woman from a wealthy family....

    Lady Karuizawa
  • 1970
    Men and War I: Prelude to Destiny

    Men and War I: Prelude to Destiny (1970)

    Men and War I: Prelude to Destiny

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    The upstart Godai family conglomerate plans to strengthen ties with the hardliners in the Kwantung Army as they plan military expansion into Manchuria....

    Men and War I: Prelude to Destiny
  • 1971
    Men and War II: Land of Love and Sorrow

    Men and War II: Land of Love and Sorrow (1971)

    Men and War II: Land of Love and Sorrow

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    Second part of an epic drama of war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of the Godai family from 1935 through Japan's invasion of China. Based on the novels by Jumpei Gomikawa, who also penned The Human Condition....

    Men and War II: Land of Love and Sorrow
  • 1963
    Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai

    Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai (1963)

    Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai

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    After a salary-man's fiancée attempts suicide, he recounts his gruesome family history which saw generations of his ancestors suffer and sacrifice themselves for the sake of their cruel lords....

    Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai
  • 1961
    Invasion of the Neptune Men

    Invasion of the Neptune Men (1961)

    Invasion of the Neptune Men

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    Clumsy invaders from Neptune are thwarted by hero Space Chief and a nondescript group of microshort-wearing Japanese kids....

    Invasion of the Neptune Men
  • 1964
    Wolves, Pigs & Men

    Wolves, Pigs & Men (1964)

    Wolves, Pigs & Men

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    Sabu and his pals hold a pauper's funeral for Sabu's mother. His brother Jiro arrives home, fresh out of jail, and Sabu pointedly states that Jiro is not invited. Jiro meanwhile is planning a big job - steal 40 million in cash and drugs, and he invit...

    Wolves, Pigs & Men
  • 1962
    Miyamoto Musashi: Showdown at Hannyazaka Heights

    Miyamoto Musashi: Showdown at Hannyazaka Heights (1962)

    Miyamoto Musashi: Showdown at Hannyazaka Heights

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    The remake of Yoshikawa's novel continues with the second installment in which Takezo, soon to be Miyamoto Musashi, emerges from the Himeji Castle after three years of intense contemplation and philosophical study and starting on his epic quest to co...

    Miyamoto Musashi: Showdown at Hannyazaka Heights
  • 1964
    Miyamoto Musashi: The Duel at Ichijo Temple

    Miyamoto Musashi: The Duel at Ichijo Temple (1964)

    Miyamoto Musashi: The Duel at Ichijo Temple

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    In the fourth installment, Musashi's potentially greatest opponent Kojiro jumps in and out of the story at the oddest and most coincidental moments. As his great love Otsu has succumbed to madness. Musashi then sets off to beat the functionaries of a...

    Miyamoto Musashi: The Duel at Ichijo Temple
  • 1974
    Father of the Kamikaze

    Father of the Kamikaze (1974)

    Father of the Kamikaze

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    Vice Admiral Takajiro Ohnishi could see that Japan's defeat in WWII was inevitable. He came to realize that the only way to force a negotiated solution was to convince the Americans that invading Japan would cause massive casualties on both sides. Th...

    Father of the Kamikaze
  • 1972
    Shadow Hunters

    Shadow Hunters (1972)

    Shadow Hunters

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    Set during the declining years of the Tokugawa shogunate, Shadow Hunters details the questionably noble exploits of three ronin who act as "Shadow Hunters". These three ronin are not your normal ornery ruffians who are looking for a drink, a broad an...

    Shadow Hunters
  • 1962
    Mid-August Commotion

    Mid-August Commotion (1962)

    Mid-August Commotion

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    A suspense work based on the "Miyagi Incident," an attempted coup d'etat led by some officers working for the Ministry of the Defense and the General Staff of the Konoe Division on the eve of the end of the Pacific War....

    Mid-August Commotion
  • 1968
    Blackmail Is My Life

    Blackmail Is My Life (1968)

    Blackmail Is My Life

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    Though he has come from a rough background on the streets, Muraki quickly rises through the ranks by means of his well-honed blackmailing instincts. Desperate to keep rolling with his freewheeling lifestyle, Muraki sees his luck begin to crumble when...

    Blackmail Is My Life
  • 1964
    Jakoman and Tetsu

    Jakoman and Tetsu (1964)

    Jakoman and Tetsu

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    In a village subsisting on its herring fishery, a one-eyed criminal named Jakoman terrorizes the inhabitants. One of them, the son of the head of one of the fish companies by the name of Tetsu, decides to overthrow Jakoman and his cohorts....

    Jakoman and Tetsu
  • 1965
    House of Terrors

    House of Terrors (1965)

    House of Terrors

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    A hunchbacked caretaker presides over a forlorn mansion inhabited by the ghosts of his previous masters. An unbelieving trio (a doctor, his assistant and his niece) fail to heed the caretaker's warnings and are slaughtered horribly by the jealous occ...

    House of Terrors
  • 1959
    The Tokyo Dame

    The Tokyo Dame (1959)

    The Tokyo Dame

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    A young woman tries to keep her family together after her father disowns her sister....

    The Tokyo Dame
  • 1965
    The Boss

    The Boss (1965)

    The Boss

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    Teruo Ishii portrays the bitter conflict over the right to develop land in a gripping and humorous way. Nakagami, the head of the Kanto Joseikai, is ordered to acquire the rights to work to level the reclaimed land and prevent the Doshikai from expan...

    The Boss
  • 1982
    Ninja Hunt

    Ninja Hunt (1982)

    Ninja Hunt

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    It's a rare occasion when a noted filmmaker like Yamauchi Tetsuya gets to re-visit a previous film, and in this re-make of NINJA GARI, he not only does that, but has created an even better piece. While the original from 1964 starred the great old-tim...

    Ninja Hunt
  • 1972
    Under the Flag of the Rising Sun

    Under the Flag of the Rising Sun (1972)

    Under the Flag of the Rising Sun

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    A war widow determined to clear the name of her disgraced husband, who was court-martialed for desertion and executed. Official records have been destroyed, and the ministry that distributes benefits continues to deny her a pension. Twenty-six years ...

    Under the Flag of the Rising Sun
  • 1963
    Tale of Army Brutality

    Tale of Army Brutality (1963)

    Tale of Army Brutality

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    Director Jun'ya Satô's debut film focuses on the inhuman training of recruits, the brutal drill system that reigned in the Japanese army during World War II, where in the first two years of training, ordinary people were turned into inhuman killers. ...

    Tale of Army Brutality
  • 1962
    G-Men in the Pacific

    G-Men in the Pacific (1962)

    G-Men in the Pacific

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    G-men challenge a jewelry smuggling ring. The chase starts in Kyushu and continues to Kobe to Yokohama....

    G-Men in the Pacific