Gray Sunset is a 1985 Japanese film directed by Shunya Ito. It was Japan’s submission Read More »
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Yakuza of Seki AKA Seki no yatappe (1963) Kôsaku Yamashita, Kinnosuke Nakamura, Isao Kimura, Yukiyo Toake
A young yakuza, Yatappe, wanders around the country in search of his long-lost little sister, Oito. Read More »
Tora-san 14 AKA Otoko wa tsurai yo: Torajiro komoriuta (1974) Yôji Yamada, Kiyoshi Atsumi, Chieko Baishô, Yukiyo Toake
After Hiroshi is injured in a workplace accident, Torajiro gives Sakura the money Read More »
The Yakuza Wives 2 AKA Gokudo no onna-tachi 2 (1987) Tooru Dobashi, Yukiyo Toake, Rino Katase, Hiroaki Murakami
Yuki, the wife of a leading member of the Domoto family, must assume her husband’s Read More »
Writhing Tongue (1980) Yoshitarô Nomura, Tsunehiko Watase, Yukiyo Toake, Mayuko Wakamori
A five-year-old girl gets a tiny scratch on her finger while playing with mud in a marsh. Read More »
Kono ko wo nokoshite / Children of Nagasaki (1983) Keisuke Kinoshita, Gô Katô, Yukiyo Toake, Chikage Awashima, Drama, War
In Nagasaki, Japan, on 09 August 1945, at 11:02 AM, 80.000 dead and thousand of persons wounded or contaminated by radiation were victims of one of the most hideous crimes of the mankind history. This low-budget movie is a dramatization of this deplorable event, based on the report of one of the survivors of the ‘day after’ of Nagasaki.
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Jigoku no okite ni asu wa nai / Glorious Fights (1966) Yasuo Furuhata, Ken Takakura, Rentarô Mikuni, Yukiyo Toake, Action
A young leader of the Yamazaki family of Nagasaki, Takida (Ken Takakura) is an A-bomb survivor. He fiercely battles violent elements in southern Japan without fear of consequences.
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